Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn
“Back when newspapers were the primary source of information, opinion, and entertainment in America, when even small towns had competing papers with divergent political and religious affiliations, the public formed its views on current events mostly from what appeared in the press.Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mudis a rich, readable study of the newspaper response in 1876 to Custer’s disastrous defeat at the Little Bighorn––a response that proved instrumental in creating the enduring fascination with Custer's Last Stand.”—Brian W. Dippie, author ofCuster’s Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth