Crazy Horse and Custer
Subtitle: the parallel lives of two American warriors
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Edition: 1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9780385479660
Subjects: Crazy Horse, ca. 1842-1877; Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876; Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895; Oglala Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Generals -- United States -- Biography; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Wars
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-516) and index.
Originally published by Doubleday, 1975.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one.; title: 1. The setting and the people : the Great Plains; title: 2. The setting and the people : Ohio; title: 3. "Curly"; title: 4. Curly's vision; title: 5. Autie; title: 6. Custer at West Point; title: 7. Custer and Crazy Horse on the eve of manhood; title: Part two.; title: 8. War and love among the Oglalas; title: 9. Guerrila warfare, Indian style; title: 10. War and love among the Americans; title: 11. The boy general and the glorious war; title: 12. Crazy Horse and Custer as young warriors; title: Part three.; title: 13. Crazy Horse and the Fort Phil Kearny Battle; title: 14. Custer comes to the plains; title: 15. A summer on the plains : 1867; title: 16. The Treaty of 1868 and the Battle of the Washita; title: 17. Truce on the high plains, 1869,-73; title: Part four.; title: 18. Crazy Horse and Custer on the Yellowstone, 1873; title: 19. The panic of 1873 and the Black Hills Expedition of 1874; title: 20. Politics : red and white; title: 21. Crazy Horse fights on the Rosebud while Custer closes in; title: 22. The Battle of the Little Bighorn; title: 23. The death of Crazy Horse; title: 24. What happened to the others