ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

Endpapers illustration: “Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881.” National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, manuscript 2367A, image 08569600.

Title page and chapter opening illustration: “Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881.” National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, manuscript 2367A, image 08568000 (detail).

“Portrait of Maj. Gen. (as of Apr. 15, 1865) George A. Custer, officer of the Federal Army.” January 4, 1865. Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, reproduction number LC-DIG-cwpb-05341.

Libbie Bacon Custer (detail), from “Gen. and Mrs. George A. Custer,” ca. 1860–ca. 1865. Photographs Relating to the Civil War, 1921–1921 series, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860–1985, National Archives and Records Administration, 530596 111-BZ-102.

“Typical surface of the country underlain by the Ogallala formation of the High Plains of western Kansas. Buffalo wallow, shallow circular depression in the level surface, in foreground.” Haskell County, Kansas, 1897. U.S. Geological Survey/photograph by Willard Drake Johnson.

“Rath & Wright’s buffalo hide yard in 1878, showing 40,000 buffalo hides, Dodge City, Kansas.” Miscellaneous Photographs 1937–1940 series, Records of the National Park Service, National Archives and Records Administration, 520093 79-M-1B-3.

“Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881.” National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, manuscript 2367A, image 08569600 (detail).

“George Armstrong Custer, in uniform, seated with his wife, Elizabeth ‘Libbie’ Bacon Custer, and his brother, Thomas W. Custer, standing.” ca. January 3, 1865. Miscellaneous Items in High Demand collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, reproduction number LC-USZ62-114798.

O’Sullivan, Timothy H. “Falmouth, Va. Capt. George A. Custer and Gen. Alfred Pleasonton on horseback.” April 1863. Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, reproduction number LC-DIG-cwpb-04041.

By Gaylord Soli.

“Here Custer Fell.” Rodman Wanamaker photograph collection relating to American Indians, 1908–1909 (NAA Photo Lot 64), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, INV 02510500.