Brazen Trumpet
Subtitle: Frederick W. Benteen and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Contributors: Maps designed by Shawn Coyle and Alan Radecki; Editing by Sherry Cappa and Karol Asay
Edition: First
Publisher: Mojave West
Published: 2009
Place of publication: California, USA
Subjects: Custer's Last Stand; Battle of the Little Big Horn; Lt. Colonel George Custer; Captain Frederick Benteen; Major Marcus Reno; Chief Sitting Bull
Genres: Non Fiction; U. S. History
First sentence: Despite the dramatic and startling victory by the Sioux and Cheyenne over the Seventh Cavalry at the Little Big Horn River in 1876, the U.S. Army was successful in the last quarter of the century in methodically corralling wayward warring tribes and in destroying the Indian way of life.
Table of contents: pagenum: 1
label: Preface; title: None So Cursed
pagenum: 5
label: 1; title: Epiphany
pagenum: 33
label: 2; title: The Fighting Seventh
pagenum: 61
label: 3; title: Plenty of Indians for Us All
pagenum: 99
label: 4; title: Across the River... and Into the Trees
pagenum: 133
label: 5; title: High Ground
pagenum: 159
label: 6; title: Diligence or Dalliance
pagenum: 195
label: 7; title: End of the Line
pagenum: 237
label: 8; title: Benteen's Anonymous Letter
pagenum: 247
label: Appendix A; title: Benteen's Official Report
pagenum: 253
label: Appendix B; title: Benteen's Letter to the "Kansas City Times"
pagenum: 257
label: Appendix C; title: Benteen's Medical Examination Report
pagenum: 265
label: Appendix D; title: Numerical Precision and Uncertainty
pagenum: 271
label: Appendix E; pagenum: 275
label: Bibliography