First person accounts/ Original sources.

[Geiger]

Hello, I am new to this board & just want to say that I'm suprised/pleased/intimidated at the level of knowledge many of you posters have. I'm just an amateur historian who got caught in the LBH battle & GAC as a teenager. I've read many of the popular books that have came out over the years, but they are basically other peoples interpretation of events. What are some of the better first person accounts that have been published? I have found a cheap copy of "The Benteen-Goldin Letters" that I might get, plus a copy of the Reno Court of Inquiry. I'm interested in your thoughts on these 2 books. Can you point some others along these lines? Thanks...

[Walt Cross]

Geiger;
Here are a few books I found very useful for my research. Some won't be of interest to you but others may.

Walt

Andrist, Ralph K. 1993. The Long Death, the Last Days of the Plains Indian. New York, New York. Collier Books Macmillan Publishing Company.

Bad Heart Bull, Amos 1967. A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

Brininstool, E. A. 1925. A Trooper with Custer. Columbus, Ohio: Hunter-Trader-Trapper

Brininstool, E. A. 1989. Troopers with Custer Historic Incidents of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press.

Connell, Evan S. 1984 Son of the Morning Star Custer and the Little Bighorn San Francisco, CA North Point Press

Darling, Roger. 1989. Custer’s Seventh Cavalry Comes to Dakota. El Segundo, California: Upton and Sons.

Donovan, Jim. 2001. Custer and the Little Bighorn. Stillwater, Minnesota. Voyageur Press Inc.

Ellison, Douglas W. 1983. Sole Survivor An Examination of the Frank Finkel Narrative North Plains Press Aberdeen, S.D.

Freeman, Henry B. 1977. The Freeman Journal: The Infantry in the Sioux Campaign of 1876. George A. Schneider, Editor. Presidio Press, San Rafael, California.

Gray, John S. 1976. Centennial Campaign The Sioux War of 1876. Vol. 8 in the Custeriana Series. The Old Army Press

Greene, Jerome A. Lakota and Cheyenne Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 University of Oklahoma Press: Norman and London.

Greene, Jerome A. 2003 Morning Star Dawn The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman

Graham, W. A. 1959 Second Edition. The Story of the Little Big Horn Custer’s Last Fight. Bonanza Books, New York.

Gray, John S. 1991. Custer’s Last Campaign. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London.

Hammer, Kenneth Ed. 1976. “Custer in ’76 Walter Camp’s Notes on the Custer Fight”Brigham Young Press

Hardorff, Richard G. 1991. Lakota Recolletions of the Custer Fight New Sources of Indian-Military History Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Company.

Hardorff, Richard G. 1993. Hokahey! A Good Day to Die! Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Company.

Hardorff, Richard G. 2002. The Custer Battle Casualties Burials, Exhumations and Reinterments. Upton and Sons El Segundo, California.

Hardorff, Richard G. 2004. Indian Views of the Custer Fight A Source Book Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Company.

Horsted, Paul and Ernest Grafe 2002. Exploring with Custer the 1874 Black Hills Expedition. Golden Valley Press Custer, South Dakota.

Jackson, Donald 1966. Custer’s Gold. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

King, Charles 1902 Campaigning with Crook. Harper and Brothers, New York and London.

Libby, Orin G. 1973 The Arikara Narrative of Custer’s Campaign and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma.

Mills, Charles K. 1985 Harvest of Barren Regrets the Army Career of Frederick William Benteen 1834 – 1898. The Arthur H. Clark Company Glendale, California.

Nye, Elwood L. Lieutenant Colonel, Veterinary Corps, U.S.A. 1964 Marching with Custer a Day-by-day Evaluation of the uses, abuses, and conditions of the animals on the ill-fated expedition of 1876. The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California.

Mackintosh, John D. 2002. Custer’s Southern Officer. Cloud Creek Press: Lexington, S.C.

Magnussen, Daniel O. Ed. Peter Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Bighorn Campaign 1876. The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California 1974.

Parsons, John W. and Kennedy, Stephen Inkpaduta and the Sioux Indians. Okoboji Protective Association, Okoboji, Iowa 1998.

Robinson, Charles M. III 1995. A Good Year to Die the Story of the Great Sioux War. Random House, New York.

Scott, Douglas D. et. al. 1998. They Died With Custer. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman and London.

Scott, Douglas D. et. al. 1989. Archeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman and London.
Sklenar, Larry 2000. To Hell with Honor Custer and the Little Bighorn. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman.

Taylor, William O. 1996. With Custer on the Little Bighorn. Viking Penguin New York, NY

Utley, Robert M. 1973. Frontier Regulars the United States Army and the Indian 1866-1891. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. New York, London.

Utley, Robert M. 1980. Custer and the Great Controversy the Origin and Development of a Legend. Westernlore Press Pasadena, CA 91106.

Van Nuys, Maxwell Inkpaduta – the Scarlet Point; Terror of the Dakota Frontier and Secret Hero of the Sioux. Privately Published Denver, CO 1998.

Viola, Herman J. 1999. Little Bighorn Remembered The Untold Indian Story of Custer’s Last Stand. Times Books: New York, NY.

Watson, Irving A. 1896. Physicians and Surgeons of America A Collection of Biographical Sketches of the Regular Medical Profession. Republican Press Association Concord, NH.

Windolph, Charles 1987. I Fought With Custer The Story of Sergeant Windolph, Last Survivor of the Little Big Horn. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London.

[Geiger]

Walt, thanks, I plan on doing a read up on the Battle this summer. Appreciate the help.

[Michael Lentz]

Some good books on the Little Big Horn Battle/General Custer

Walter Camp---"Custer in 76"--great book & Mr. Camp interviewed a wide variety of survivors on both sides of this battle.

Charles Kuhlman--"Legend Into History"-the most detailed book on the battle, it's almost like he was there.

Dr. Lawrence Frost--"The Custer Album"--a great, simple, all-around book loaded with photos.