Terry Mort - Thieves Road: The Black Hills Betrayal and Custers Path to Little Bighorn

TERRY MORT has degrees in literature from Princeton University and the University of Michigan. After graduate school he served as an officer in the US Navy. He is the author of The Wrath of Cochise and The Hemingway Patrols, which was selected as the best of the month by Amazon in August 2009. He is also the author of five novels and a book on fly fishing. He edited anthologies of Mark Twain, Jack London, and Zane Grey. He divides his time between Arizona and Colorado.

Map illustrated by Rick Britton.

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War reflects culture. Weaponry, tactics, notions of discipline, command, logisticsall such elements of battle arise not just from constraints of terrain, climate and geography, but also from the nature of a society's economy, politics and sociology.