- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Reprint edition (30 Nov 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140251766
- ISBN-13: 978-0140251760
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.8 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,299,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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General George Custer's 1876 attack on a huge encampment of Plains Indians has gone down as the most disastrous defeat in American history. Much less understood is how disastrous it was for the "victors, " the Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Sitting Bull: within fifteen years all Native Americans were confined to reservations, their culture in ruins. James Welch poignantly resurrects their side of the story from beneath a mountain of myth and misinterpretation, relating in masterful prose the pride and desperation of a people stripped of treaty rights and hounded from ancestral hunting grounds into wretched reservations. Through this critical missing piece that tells the Indian side of the story, " Killing Custer" rethinks the meaning of the Little Bighorn for a multicultural society.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A very fresh point of view on an almost mythical historical figure. The author shows that Custer had been blessed with more luck than ability, and his luck ran out. The author also did a great job of telling how the death of Custer was also the death of the Souix nation.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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James Welch's KILLING CUSTER is one of the most interesting historical works I've read in a long time. Told from the Indian point of view, the book discusses the major battles and skirmishes leading up to the climactic piece, the "Battle of Little Bighorn." Along the way, Custer treats us to a glimpse of the lifestyles and mindsets of several Northern Plains tribes. The book offers historical information as well as personal thoughts, as the author tours the land where many of these battles occurred. We tag along on his journey, and meet many fascinating people, from descendants of battle participants, to current leaders among Native peoples. Although at times Welch's emotions spill over into his words, leaving the reader concerned that she may be reading a slanted version of events, his account is for the most part level-headed. The book is a wonderful account of the Battle of Little Bighorn, and a testimony to a modern Indian's thoughts on this monument to a white loser (Custer) rather than to Indian victors. It will not please Custer buffs, nor will it even begin to satisfy battle-strategy fanatics. But for those readers who like to see other sides of a story, this book will entrance you and even make you weep; for while the large gathering of Northern Plains tribes did manage to succeed in defeating the most famous Indian fighter of the age, they nonetheless lost the war -- and many modern Indians feel they are still suffering the consequences. If you love Plains history, battle histories, Indians or underdogs, you will love this book. If you are a raving Custer buff, you will have great fun tossing this book into the wall -- but you will go pick it up and continue reading it, and tossing it again and again. You just can't put this book down.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Buy this book and learn how it really was. Forget the cheesey Hollywood films, the re-told stories of how Custer valiantly fought for his life and died around a circle of fallen heroes and read about an arrogant murderer who's ego led his infamous 7th Cavalry to their deaths. This book is more than the Little Bighorn Indian Victory it also tells of the Indian genocide. The build up to the fight, the fight itself and the aftermath and the suffering today that the 'Real Americans'suffer.
This book along with 'Battle of Little Bighorn' Mari Sandoz and 'Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee' Dee Brown give a new and honest opion to how life was for the American Indian. For once, shut out the white man's version of history and read the true events as told by people who were there.
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Well Worth the Read
There are probably thousands of books about 'Custer's Last Stand' but this one is rare in that it presents the story from the Native American perspective. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Oldlongdog
More politically correct distortions
I give this book one star for the historical research and nothing else. This is just another example of how to take an historical figure and/or event out of context and place... Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2007 by Mr. D. Pyke
Excellent
A well researched book about Custer, Sitting Bull and the famous battle written from a slightly different perspective. A joy to read!
Published on 4 Dec 1998
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