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The image of the famous last stand of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer has transmogrified into myth. We imagine the solitary Custer standing upright to the end, his troops formed into groups of wounded and dying men around him. In To Hell with Honor, Larry Sklenar analyzes and interprets the widely accepted facts underlying the popular depiction of Custers defeat. Approaching the subject with a fresh perspective, he offers wholly new conclusions about one of the most enduring puzzles in United States history--the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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To Hell With Honor : Custer and the Little Bighorn
author
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Sklenar, Larry.
publisher
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University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin
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080613156X
print isbn13
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9780806131566
ebook isbn13
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9780585256184
language
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English
subject
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, Custer, George Armstrong,--1839-1876.
publication date
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2000
lcc
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E83.876.S54 2000eb
ddc
:
973.8/2
subject
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Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, Custer, George Armstrong,--1839-1876.
Page iii
To Hell with Honor
Custer and the Little Bighorn
Larry Sklenar
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN
Page iv
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sklenar, Larry, 1937 To hell with honor: Custer and the Little Bighorn / Larry Sklenar. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8061-3156-X (alk. paper) 1. Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876. 2. Custer, George Armstrong, 18391876. I. Title. E83.876.S542000 973.8'2dc21 99-38632 CIP
Text design by Gail Carter.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright 2000 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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Page v
To Claire and the boys (Scott, Duane, and Steve)
Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
1. A Dirty Little War
3
2. Natural Enemies
26
3. As Families Go
44
4. Men and Boys
64
5. How They Looked
87
6. What They Saw
114
7. A Fatal Separation
135
8. A Terrible Fright
162
9. Hurry up and Wait
193
10. Unready Reserves
218
11. Charge to the Rear
240
12. Calling for Courage
263
13. Within Hearing, Beyond Reach
296
14. Honor Bound
321
Notes
343
Selected Bibliography
377
Index
385
Page ix
Illustrations
Photographs
following p. 186
Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, 1865
Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, 1876
Elizabeth Bacon Custer, 1876
Major Marcus A. Reno
Captain Frederick W. Benteen
Captain Thomas W. Custer, circa 1872
Lieutenant William W. Cooke, circa 1875
Hunkpapa leader Sitting Bull, circa 1885
Crow Scout Curley
Maps
1. Military expedition of 1876
70
2. From the Crow's Nest to the Custer battlefield
136
3. The Custer battlefield
278
Page xi
Preface
When George Armstrong Custer died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he was thirty-six years old. Nearly all of the soldiers who rode with him were younger than that, as were the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors who defeated him and his command on 25 June 1876.
Of course, the burdens of waging war have always fallen predominantly on the young. I continue to be amazed that the men who flew U.S. bombers in World War II were so terribly young, most of them barely twenty years old. Their responsibilities were so great. The pilot, besides trying to achieve his objectives in the most perilous of circumstances while looking out for himself, had in his care the lives of nine or so crew members. That has always seemed to me such a lonely way to die, even when that crew went down together. The thought of those boys falling dead or dying through sky to earth is haunting in the extreme.
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