Proclaimed as the 'Foremost Custer Living Historian' by the US Congress, Steve Alexander is an acknowledged expert for his lifetime's work and portrayal of America's most controversial military leader. With a brilliant text, more than 200 period photographs and full colour pictures, many specially designed for this book, are interwoven to render a distinctive work on the famous encounter between Custer's 7th Cavalry and the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne, led by Sitting Bull. The book also includes a prologue by Dr Joseph Medicine Crow, the last War Chief of the Crow tribe, and an impressive colour fold-out map with clear details of the famous battle. Alexander traces the life and deeds of George Armstrong Custer from his beginnings to his famous Last Stand and death on June 25th, 1876, near the Little Big Horn River in southeastern Montana Territory. Adhering whenever possible to the 19th century spelling, language and dialogue, he creates a brilliant storyline and brings the reader to the true essence of the Old West. Chapters include Upon the High Yellowstone and From the Prairies to Politics through to biographical details of Custer's life at West Point, and flags and insignia, weapons and the cavalry regiment and force furniture. Printed on very glossy white paper, the huge pages reproduce hundreds of colour images together with contemporary photographs, posters, artworks and engravings and a collage of the 7th Cavalry officers killed at Little Big Horn. 176 large pages, 21.3 x 30.5cm.
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