USAMHI BIOGSbib - Custer RefBranch dv Jul 89, Feb 91, Sep 93 BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN, JUNE 1876 A Bibliography of MHI Sources Contents General Accounts...........................p.1 Special Aspects/Analyses...................p.3 Participants...............................p.5 Contemporaneous/Period Sources.............p.8 Miscellaneous..............................p.9 GENERAL ACCOUNTS Carroll, John M., ed. General Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn: The Federal View. New Brunswick, NJ: Garry Owen, 1976. 177 p. E83.876G4. Dustin, Fred. The Custer Tragedy: Events Leading Up to and Following the Little Big Horn Campaign of 1876. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards, 1939. 251 p. E83.876D89. Graham, W.A. "Come On! Be Quick! Bring Packs!" Cav Jrnl 32 (Jul 1923): pp. 304-310. Per. _________. The Custer Myth. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1953. 256 p. E83.876G7. _________. The Story of the Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Fight. NY: Century, 1926. 174 p. E83.876G73. Gray, John S. Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed. Lincoln, NE: UP of NE, 1991. 444 p. E83.876G7373. Reputed by authorities to be the best single vol on the battle, analytically speaking. Hammer, Kenneth M. "The Glory March: A Concise Account of the Little Bighorn Campaign of 1876." Detached from English Westerners' Brand Book 8 (Jul 1966): pp. 1-6. E83.876H3. Little Big Horn p.2 Kinsley, D.A. Favor the Bold: Custer the Indian Fighter. 2 vols. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968. E467.1C99K5. Marquis, Thomas B. Custer on the Little Bighorn. Lodi, CA: Hastings, 1967. 56 p. E87.876M27. And revised ed, 1986 (132 p.) _________. Keep the Last Bullet for Yourself: The True Story of Custer's Last Stand. NY: Two Continents, 1976. 203 p. E83.876M282. McAuliffe, Eugene. "When Can Their Glory Fade?": General George Armstrong Custer, U.S.A.: The Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876. n.p., 1954. 27 p. E83.876M23. Miller, David H. Custer's Fall. NY: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1957. 271 p. E83.876M6. Rosenberg, Bruce A. Custer and the Epic of Defeat. University Park, PA: PA State UP, 1974. 313 p. E83.876C983R67. Sandoz, Mari. The Battle of Little Bighorn. Phila: Lippincott, 1966. 191 p. E83.876S2. Taunton, Francis B. Custer's Field: "A Scene of Sickening Ghastly Horror." London: Johnson-Taunton, 1986. 46 p. E83.876T38. U.S. War Dept. Report of the Secretary of War, 1876. Vol I. Wash, DC: GPO, 1876. UA24A145. See also: - "George A. Custer" (BIOGSbib) SPECIAL ASPECTS/ANALYSES Ambrose, Stephen E. Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. 486 p. E90C94A46. Anders, Frank L. The Custer Trail: A Narrative of the Line of March of Troops Serving in the Department of Dakota in the Campaign Against Hostile Sioux, 1876: Fort Abraham Lincoln to the Montana Line. Ed by John M. Carroll. Glendale, CA: Clark, 1983. 148 p. E83.876A532. Little Big Horn p.3 Bradley, James H. The March of the Montana Column: A Prelude to the Custer Disaster. Ed by Edgar I. Stewart. Norman: UP of Okla, 1991. 179 p. E83.866B8. Camp, Walter M. Custer in '76: Walter Camp's Notes on the Custer Fight. Ed by kenneth Hammer. Provo, UT: Brigham Young, UP, 1976. 303 p. E83.876C16. Carroll, John M., ed. The Two Battles of the Little Big Horn. NY: Liverwright, 1974. 214 p. E83.876T95. Clark, George M. Scalp Dance: The Edgerly Papers on the Battle.... Oswego, NY: Heritage, 1985. 91 p. E83.876E34. Dippie, Brian W. "The Southern Response to Custer's Last Stand." Reprint of Montana 21 (Sprg 1971): pp. 18-31. E83.876D46. Dubois, Charles G. The Custer Mystery. El Segundo, CA: Upton, 1986. 193 p. E83.876D83. Dustin, Fred. The Custer Fight: Some Criticisms of Gen. E.S. Godfrey's "Custer's Last Battle," in the Century Magazine for January 1892; and of Mrs. Elizabeth Custer's Pamphlet of 1921. Hollywood, CA: n.p., 1936. 33 p. E83.876D88. Ege, Robert J. Settling in Dust. Sheridan, WY: Quick, 1968. 40 p. E83.876E43. Floca, Samuel W., Jr. "Isandhlwana & Little Bighorn: A Study in Parallels." Army 24 (Jan 1974): pp. 31-36. Per. Gray, cited above. Gregory, V.J. "Surprise on a Hilltop." Mil Rev 38 (Jul 1958): pp. 3-8. Per. Hardorff, Richard G. Markers, Artifacts and Indian Testimony: Preliminary Findings on the Custer Battle. Short Hills, NJ: Don Horn, 1985. 71 p. E83.876H364. _________. The Custer Battle Casualties: Burials, Exhumations and Reinterments. El Segundo, CA: Upton, 1989. 182 p. E83.876H363. Hofling, Charles K. Custer and the Little Big Horn: A Psycho- biographical Inquiry. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1981. 118 p. E83.876C983H63. Little Big Horn p.4 Horn, W. Donald, comp. Witnesses for the Defense of General George Armstrong Custer. Short Hills, NJ: Horn, 1981. 98 p. E467.1C99W66. Karl, Dennis. Glorious Defiance: Last Stands Throughout History. NY: Paragon, 1990. 237 p. D25K37. Descriptive & analytical. See Chap 9. King, W. Kent. Massacre: The Custer Cover-Up: The Original Maps of Custer's Battlefield. El Segundo, CA: Upton, 1989. 310 p. E83.876K52. Kuhlman, Charles. Gen. George A. Custer, A Lost Trail and the Gall Saga: Some Interesting Deducations Regarding the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Jun 25-26, 1876. Billings, MT: n.p., 1940. 46 p. E83.876K84. _________. Legend Into History: The Custer Mystery: An Analytical Study of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1951. 250 p. E83.876K87. Liggett, Hunter. Gen. Hunter Liggett's Letter on the Battle of Little Big Horn. n.p., 1937. 5 p. E83.876L5. Marquis, Thomas B. Custer Soldiers Not Buired.... Hardin, MT: Custer Battle Museum, 1933. 4 p. E83.876M28. _________. Which Indian Killed Custer?.... Hardin, MT: Custer Battle Museum, 1933. 4 p. E83.876M29. Marshall, S.L.A. "Custer: The Little Big Decisions." Army (Jun 1971): pp. 34-41. Per. Martin, Steven J. "Custer Didn't Listen." Mil Intell (Apr-Jun 1989): pp. 15-20. Per. A modern intell assessment. Nye, Elwood L. Marching with Custer: A Day-by-Day Evaluation of the Uses, Abuses, and Conditions of the Animals of the Ill-Fated Expedition of 1876. Glendale, CA: Clark, 1964. 53 p. E83.876N9. Rosenberg, Bruce A. "The Ghost of Major Elliot at the Little Big Horn." Parameters IV (No 1, 1974): pp. 58-66. Per. Historically connects Fetterman Fight (1866), incident at the Battle of the Washita (1868), and the Little Big Horn (1876). Little Big Horn p.5 Russell, Don. Custer's Last: Or, The Battle of the Little Big Horn in Picturesque, Perspective, Being a Pictorial Representation of the Late and Unfortunate Incident in Montana as Portrayed by Custer's Friend and Foes, Admirers, and Iconoclasts of His Day and After. Ft Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Wester Art, 1968. 67 p. E83.876R8. Scott, Douglas D., and Fox, Richard A., Jr. Archaelogical Insights in the Custer Battle: An Assessment of the 1984 Field Season. Norman: UP of OK, 1987. 137 p. E83.876S367. Shea, George. What Really Happened at The Battle of Little Big Horn.... Wethersfield, CT: G & L, 1991. ca 50 p. E83.876S53. Speculation, analysis, poems by portrayer of Custer. Silberman, Neil A. "Custer's Ghostherders." MHQ 2 (Wtr 1990): pp. 84-94. Per. New interpretations based on systematic & scientific archealogical procedures since 1984. Utley, Robert M. "Last Stand." MHQ 1 (Autm 1988): pp. 114-23. Per. An explanation. Weibert, Henry & Don. Sixty-Six Years in Custer's Shadow. Billings, MT: Falcon, 1985. 174 p. E83.876W443. By rancher near battlesite, who offers his terrain analysis. PARTICIPANTS Brininstool, Earl A. The Custer Fight: Capt. Benteen's Story of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876; With Comments on the Rosebud Fight June 17, 1876, by Robert E. Strahorn.... Hollywood, CA: private pub, 1933. 36 p. E83.876B46. _________. A Trooper with Custer and Other Historic Incidents of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Columbus, OH: Hunter- Trader-Trapper, 1925. 214 p. E83.876B85. Also 1975 reprint ed. Carroll, John M., ed. The D[avid] F. Barry Correspondence at the Custer Battlefield (The Juciest Ones Being from Capt. Benteen). Bryan, TX: n.p., 1980. 52 p. E83.876B3. Little Big Horn p.6 _________. The Benteen-Goldin Letters on Custer and His Last Battle. NY: Livewright, 1974. 312 p. E83.876B465. _________. Major Marcus Reno. New Brunswick, NJ: Carroll, 1977. 31 p. E81J6no2. Chicago Time [author]. The Reno Court of Inquiry: The Chicago Times Account. Ft Collins: Old Army, 1972. 476 p. E83.876R4C45. Coughlan, Timothy M. Varnum--The Last of Custer's Lieutenants. Bryan, TX: Carroll, 1980. 36 p. E83.876V25C6. Finerty, John F. War-Path and bivouac, or the Conquest of the Sioux, A Narrative of Stirring Personal Experiences and Adventures in the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition of 1876, and in the Campaign on the British Border, in 1879. Chicago: Donohue, 1890. 460 p. E83.866F49. Also 1966 ed, by Milo M. Quaife, ed. Godfrey, E.S. An Account of Custer's last Campaign and the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Palo Alto, CA: Osborne, 1968. 86 p. E83.876G59. _________. "Custer's Last Battle, by One of His Troop Commanders." Detached from Century Mag 43 (No 146): pp. 358-84. U410P1K5. _________. Papers. Archs. Writings, commentary, correspondence concerning his experiences as troop commander, Benteen's battalion. Graham, W.A. Abstracts of the Official Record of Proceedings of the Reno Court of Inquiry. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1954. 303 p. E83.876R4. Hammer, Kenneth. Men With Custer: Biographies of the 7th Cavalry.... Ft Collins, CO: Old Army, 1972. 362 p. E83.876H33. Horn, W. Donald, comp. Witnesses for the Defense of General George Armstrong Custer. Short Hills, NJ: Horn, 1981. 98 p. E467.1C99W66. Johnson, Barry C. Cause of Marcus A. Reno. London: Pilot, 1969. 92 p. E181R4J6. Little Big Horn p.7 Luce, Edward S. Case of Marcus A. Reno. London: Pilot, 1969. 92 p. E181R4J6. Marquis, Thomas B. She Watched Custer's Last Battle: Her Story, Interpreted, in 1927.... Hardin, MT: Custer Battle Museum, 1933. 21 p. E83.876M283. Kate Bighead, Cheyenne Indian. Mills, Charles K. Harvest of Barren Regrets: The Army Career of Frederick William Benteen, 1834-1898. Glendale, CA: Clark, 1985. 432 p. E83.866B46M55. Roe, Charles F. The Custer Fight: Authentic Account of Memorable Battle on the Little Big Horn on June 25th, 1876.... NY: n.p., 1910. 14 p. E83.876R6. _________. Custer's Last Battle: Narrative of the Tragedy on the Little Big Horn in What is Now the State of Montana, June 25, 1876.... NY: Bruce, 1927. 40 p. E83.876R62. Terrell, John U. Faint the Trumpet Sounds: The Life and Trial of Major Reno. NY: McKay, 1966. 332 p. E83.876R4T4. Thompson, Peter. Peter Thompson's Narrative of the Little Bighorn Campaign, 1876.... Ed by Daniel O. Magnussen. Glendale, CA: Clark, 1974. 339 p. E83.876M25. See also Magnussen's Thesis, "An Examination of a Rediscovered Custer Manuscript", 1972, on microfilm, D-M49. _________. Typescript memoir of service, 1875-6. 87 p. File X-49, Order of Indian Wars Coll, Arch. Varnum, Charles A. Custer's Chief of Scouts: The Reminiscences of Charles A. Varnum, Including his Testimony at the Reno Court of Inquiry. Ed by John M. Carroll. Lincoln: UP of NE, 1982. 192 p. E83.876V274. Windolph, Charles A. I Fought with Custer; the Story of Sergeant Windolph, Last Survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, as Told to Frazier and Robert Hunt, with Explanatory Material and Contemporary Sidelights on the Custer Fight. NY: Scribner's, 1947. 236 p. E83.876W5. See also: - "Mitch Bouyer" (Custerania) - "Thomas Custer" (Custerania) - "Isaiah Dorman" (Custerania) Little Big Horn p.8 CONTEMPORANEOUS/PERIOD Carr, Eugene A. Papers. Arch. Ltrs/diary cover 5th Cav's reinforcement in Montana. Custer, Elizabeth B. General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876. Grand Rapids, MI: Custer Ephemera Soc, n.d. 4 p. E83.876C982. New York Times, Jun-Jul 1876. Microfilm. Koenig, Arthur. Authentic History of the Indian Campaign Which Culminated in "Custer's Last Battle," June 25, 1876. St Louis, MO: n.p., 189? 12 p. E83.876K65. Oder of Indian Wars Coll. Arch. Reminiscences and writings re fighting Army, 49 of which pertain to the Sioux War of 1876. Overshine, Samuel. Paper. Arch. Incl his arrival in Montana with 5th reinforements. Overfield, Lloyd J., II. The Little Big Horn, 1876: The Official Communications, Documents and Reports.... Glendale, CA: Clark, 1971. 203 p. E83.876O9. Incls unit rosters. Victor, Frances F. Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier; Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer, with Full Account of His Last Battle. Hartford, CT: Columbian, 1877. D721V64. Walker, Judson E. Campaigns of General Custer in the Northwest, and the Final Surrender of Sitting Bull. NY: Jenkins & Thomas, 1881. 139 p. E83.866W18. Wengert, James W., ed. The New York Herald: June, July, August, September 1876. Bound excerpts. 456 p. E83.876N48. Whitaker, Frederick. A Popular Life of Gen. George A. Custer, Major- General of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General U.S. Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U.S. Cavalry. NY: Seldon, 1876. 648 p. E467.1C99E63. Little Big Horn p.9 MISCELLANEOUS Company of Mil Historians. Military Uniforms in America. Vol IV. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1988. ca 150 p. UC480M54. Representative uniforms shown; see pp. 2-3 on 7th Cav. Koury, Michael J. Custer Centennial Ovservation, 1976. Ft Collins: Old Army, 1978. 108 p. E83.876C985. Luce, Edward S., and Evelyn S. Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana. NPS Hist Handbook Series No 1, Wash, DC: Natl Park Serv, 1952. 34 p. E83.876L9. Reusswig, William. A Picture Report of the Custer Fight. NY: Hastings House, 1967. 184 p. E83.876R48. Rickey, Don. History of Custer Battlefield. Billings, MT: Custer Battlefield Hist & Museum Assn, 1967. 151 p. E83.876R5. Robinson, Harry B. Guide to the Custer Battlefield Museum. Helena, MT: Naegele, 1952? 48 p. E83.876R57. The Teepee Book: Official Publication - The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Custer Battle. Souvenir booklet reprinted from Vol Ii, No VI (Jun 1916) of The Teepee Book, Sheridan, WY, 1926. 78 p. E83.876T42. A miscellany. Ugino, Richard P. "In the Days Before SGLI (Servicemens Group Life Insurance)." Mil Coll & Hist 33 (Wtr 1971): p. 172-73. Per. Commercial life insurance of six officers of 7th Cav, incl Custer.