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Post by barneytom on Feb 4, 2021 21:29:51 GMT -6
I am a long time lurker on this board and the other one. I finally joined this one because I got tired of not being able to click on maps lol. I have been interested in military history since I was a child. My dad fostered my interests in military history(especially the Civil War) and it has been a lifelong passion to study warfare, from Megiddo to current day. He gave me a red book about Custer's last stand when we were driving to a Civil War reenactment that he read when he was a kid. As for my thoughts on the battle. I will say Dark Cloud's posts are usually my favorite to read, if that gives you an idea. I do not believe Reno was drunk, that Benteen was slow or that they conspired to let Custer die. I really don't have a set theory and do not believe there is enough evidence to prove anything beyond basic outlines of the battle. I work in the criminal justice field and I have learned all eyewitness testimony even if accurate is always colored by each witness's own beliefs and personality. I do put more stock into the archeology of the battlefield. As for reading I have read, that little red book, Strategy of Defeat, Son of the Morning Star, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn, The Last Stand by Philbrick. This isn't a long list I know and recommendations are greatly appreciated, the more fact based the better. I read alot and have already finished 3 books this year on different topics(Raabs Five Families, Wescott's The Bank Holiday Murders, and Begg's Jack the Ripper The Facts. Sorry for the wall of text and thanks for letting me join. Oh and I would like of there is a feud or what the other one?
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Post by Colt45 on Feb 5, 2021 20:23:41 GMT -6
Welcome aboard, barneytom. Glad to have your opinions here. Was the red book you refer to the Donovan book, "When the Rivers Ran Red"?
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Post by mikerobel on Feb 5, 2021 21:18:17 GMT -6
As another new guy, Welcome!
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Hello all
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Post by barneytom on Feb 6, 2021 11:21:31 GMT -6
Welcome aboard, barneytom. Glad to have your opinions here. Was the red book you refer to the Donovan book, "When the Rivers Ran Red"? I for the life of me cannot remember the title I still have it but it is in storage. It was written for children and I remember it referred to Custer as Autie throughout the book and I believe the final chapter or epilogue talked about comanche.
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Post by ronalddunne on Feb 24, 2021 14:07:50 GMT -6
barneytom... I think the book you refer to was "Custer's Last Stand", written by Quentin Reynolds, expressly for boys. It was the very first book I read on GAC, (the first I had ever heard of GAC), picked it out of our church library when I was maybe 12 or perhaps younger. I devoured it, re-reading it many times as I grew up. I hero-worshipped the guy. The book itself was a bit of a gloss on his life and military career. I've read a lot more on the man and his times in both the WBtS and his western adventures and visited the Battle-field several times, both when it was called "The Custer Battlefield" and more recently after the name was changed to "The Little Big Horn Battlefield". It seems that GAC was his own best publicist, and something of a glory-hound. He blew it on the LBH that warm June Sunday, perhaps attempting to rekindle his earlier glory... Much has been written in this politically-correct day to denigrate and dirty his reputation, both true and by less-than-founded speculation. That said, he was a genuine and successful hero in the CW, his record at Gettysburg and elsewhere speaks for itself. This in spite of his trust in his luck and misjudgment of the Indian battlefield strength and the ability of the US 7th, and perhaps an over-eager desire to wrap up the Sioux war with insufficient troops and ammunition. Dun... (another fng, and long-time Custer fan).
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Post by barneytom on Dec 18, 2021 17:02:34 GMT -6
That was it, it started my fascination with Custer and the post Civil War Indian wars.
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