Notes

Chapter I

1.     Roy Morris, Jr., Sheridan, The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan (New York: Crown Publishers, 1992), p. 184; Perry D. Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, United States Military Tactics, 1865–1899, (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), pp. 22–38, 48–53.

2.     Thom Hatch, Glorious War, The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2013), pp. 105–294; Duane Schultz, Coming Through Fire, George Armstrong Custer and Chief Black Kettle (Yardley, Penna. Westholme Publishing, 2012), pp. ix, 45–68, 142–180.

3.     Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. ix–2, 65–66.

4.     Ibid., pp. 182–184, 202–214.

5.     Ibid., pp. 222–235.

6.     Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, pp. 49–50; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. x, 249.

7.     Michael A. Elliott, Custerology, The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armonstrong Custer (Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press, 2008), p. 119.

8.     Ibid. p. 107.

9.     Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, An Indian History of the American West (Chicago, Ill. Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1971), pp. 68–91.

10.   Ibid., p. 83.

11.   Larry Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, Custer and the Little Bighorn, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), p. 132.

12.   Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, p. 25.

13.   Michael Johnson, Sioux, Warriors of the Plains (Edison, N.J.: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2008), pp. 6, 34.

14.   Jeffry D. Wert, Custer, The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer (New York: Touchstone Books, 1997), p. 313; William O. Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn (New York: Penguin Books 1996), pp. ix–x, 9; Morris, Sheridan, pp. 184, 347–348; Colin C. Calloway, One Vast Winter Count, The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), p. 305.

15.   Thomas B. Marquis, interpreter, Wooden Leg, A Warrior who Fought Custer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), p. 1.

16.   Morris, Sheridan, p. 348; Wert, Custer, p. 313.

17.   James E. Mueller, Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013), p. 18; Wert, Custer, pp. 313, 325; Mike Sajna, Crazy Horse, The Life behind the Legend (Edison, N.J.: Castle Books, 2005), p. 259; Peter Panzeri, Little Big Horn 1876, Custer’s Last Stand, (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1995), pp. 8–10.

18.   Wert, Custer, p. 325.

19.   Ibid., p. 317; Sajna, Crazy Horse, pp. 25, 259.

20.   Thomas B. Marquis, Custer on the Little Bighorn (Algonac, Mich.: Reference Publications, Inc., 1987), p. 82.

21.   Johnson, Sioux, p. 39; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, pp. 9–10; Richard G. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, A Source Book (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005), p. 132.

22.   Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, p. 70.

23.   Jay Monaghan, Custer, The Life of General George Armstrong Custer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1959), p. 373.

24.   Wert, Custer, p. 317.

25.   Ibid.

26.   Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, p. 67.

27.   Sandy Barnard, editor, Ten Years with Custer, A 7th Cavalryman’s Memoirs (Terre Haute, Ind.: AST Press, 2001), p. 250.

28.   Sajna, Crazy Horse, pp. 269–270; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, pp. 9–10; Panzeri, Little Big Horn 1876, p. 13; Tim Lehman, Bloodshed at Little Bighorn (Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 2010), p. 22.

29.   Barnard, ed., Ten Years With Custer, p. 44; Panzeri, Little Big Horn 1876, p. 8.

30.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 9.

31.   Morris, Sheridan, pp. 359–360; Wert, Custer, p. 325; Lehman, Bloodshed at Little Bighorn, p. 77; New York Times, New York, May 1, 1873; Ernest R. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets (New York: Bonanza Books, 1986), pp. 84, 92, 102; Marguerite Merington, editor, The Custer Story, The Life and Intimate Letters of General Custer and His Wife Elizabeth (New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1950), p. 268.

32.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 49.

33.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 11; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banner and War Bonnets, pp. 103–109.

34.   Barnard, ed., Ten Years with Custer, pp. 6, 285, 287.

35.   Bismark Tribune, Bismark, Dakota Territory, May 24, 1876; Mary Thomas, Canadians with Custer (Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn, 2012), p. 165.

36.   Ronald H. Nichols, editor, Men with Custer, Biographies of the 7th Cavalry (Hardin, Mont.: Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association, 2000), p. 93.

37.   Ibid.

38.   Ibid., p. 225.

39.   Sajna, Crazy Horse, p. 274; Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, pp., N.J.37–38; Frank B. Linderman, Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1962), p. 153.

40.   Wert, Custer, pp. 329, 331.

41.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 93.

42.   Wert, Custer, p. 332.

43.   Ibid., p. 335; Nichols, ed., Men with Custer, p. 95.

44.   Bismark Tribune, May 17, 1876; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 14.

45.   New York Times, May 1, 1873.

46.   Richard G. Hardorff, compiled and edited, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, New Sources of Indian Military History, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997), pp. 131–132.

47.   W. A. Graham, The Custer Myth, The Source Book of Custeriana, (Mechanicsburg, Penna.: Stackpole Books, 2000), p. 289.

48.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289.

49.   Bismark Tribune, June 14, 1876.

50.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 177.

51.   Merington, ed., The Custer Story, p. 168.

52.   Ibid., p. 217.

53.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 336.

54.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 148.

55.   Merington, ed., The Custer Story, p. 179.

Chapter II

1.     Richard Drinnon, Facing West, The Metaphysics of Indian–Hating and Empire–Building, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980), p. xii.

2.     Ibid., p. 450.

3.     Marquis, Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 81.

4.     Merington, ed., The Custer Story, p. 76.

5.     Wert, Custer, p. 333.

6.     Schultz, Coming Through Fire, p. 221.

7.     Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 92.

8.     Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, p. 50; Merington, The Custer Story, pp. 3, 57–161.

9.     Johnson, Sioux, p. 34; Panzeri, Little Big Horn 1876, pp. 9–10; Thomas E. Mails, Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women, A Study of the Societies and Cults of the Plains Indians (Englewood, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1973), pp. 34–35.

10.   Grinnell, George Bird, The Fighting Cheyennes (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985), p. 346; Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand, Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little Bighorn (New York: Viking, 2010), pp. 27–28, 67, 69–70; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 98; Lehman, Bloodshed at Little Bighorn, p. 8; Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 19; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, pp. 342–344.

11.   Lehman, Bloodshed at Little Bighorn, p. 100.

12.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 32, 34–35.

13.   Ibid., pp. 69–70.

14.   Marquis, Custer on the Little Bighorn, pp. 102, 104.

15.   Hardorff, comp. and ed., Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), pp. 152, 153, note 3.

16.   Ibid., p. 152.

17.   Ibid., p. 64; Linderman, Plenty-Coups, p. 127.

18.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 81.

19.   Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, pp. 4–8.

20.   Mails, Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women, pp. 20, 42–46, 49–50, 318–335; Walt Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, The Search for Lieutenant Henry Moore Harrington, 7th U. S. Cavalry (Stillwater, Oklahoma: Cross Publications, 2006), p. 203.

21.   Richard G. Hardorff, Hokahey!, A Good Day to Die!, The Indian Casualties of the Custer Fight (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), pp. 12–13.

22.   Wert, Custer, p. 317.

23.   Ward Churchill, A Little Matter of Genocide, Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present (San Francisco, Calif.: City Lights Books, 1997), pp. 229–233; Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, pp. 86–87.

24.   Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, p. 87; Thomas, Canadians with Custer, pp. 71–72, 81–82.

25.   Mails, Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women, pp. 17, 27–28, 32; Joseph M. Marshall, III, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, A Lakota History (New York: Penguin Books, 2007), p. 68; Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 31.

26.   Hatch, Glorious War, p. 302; Stephen E. Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors (New York: Anchor Books, 1996), p. xiii.

27.   Bismarck Tribune, June 14, 1876.

28.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 39–40, 155–156.

29.   Ibid., p. 56.

30.   Milo Milton Quaife, editor, My Life on the Plains by General George A. Custer (New York: Promontory Press, 1995), p. 23.

31.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 217; Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer p. 87.

32.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. xx.

33.   Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 181–182.

34.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 13–16, 117, 120, 135–137; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 248–249; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 157, 189, 197, 202–203; Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, p. 150; Jack L. Pennington, Custer Vindicated (New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2007), p. xiii; Merington, The Custer Story, p. 222.

35.   Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 189–190, 197–198.

36.   Gary Paul Johnston, James A. Fischer, and Harold A. Geer, Custer’s Horses (Prescott, Az.: Wolfe Publishing Company, 2001), pp. 2, 27–33; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 10, 44; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 322; Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, p. 63.

37.   Merrington, The Custer Story, p. 300.

38.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 44.

39.   Bismarck Tribune, June 21, 1876.

40.   Ibid.

41.   Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 117.

42.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 82; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 69; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 118.

43.   Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 118.

44.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 129.

45.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 301; Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, pp. 418–419.

46.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 303; Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, pp. 418–419, 421–424.

47.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 79.

48.   Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, pp. 119–120, 124; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 101–103; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, pp. 26, 30; Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 77, 92–93; Edgar I. Stewart, Custer’s Luck (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987), p. 281.

49.   New York Herald, July 11, 1876.

50.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 228.

51.   Ibid., p. 305.

52.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, pp. 26–27; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 122; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 79, 97–98.

53.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 97.

54.   Merrington, The Custer Story, p. 306.

55.   Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 83, 86.

56.   Ibid., pp. 67, 95; Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 10.

57.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, pp. 27–30; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 69–70, 89; Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, pp. 396, 412–413, 416–417.

Chapter III

1.     Gerald Jasmer, Little Bighorn National Battlefield, email to author, April 4, 2013; Jules C. Ladenheim, The Life of Frederick W. Benteen (Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2007), p. 177.

2.     Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 61–62, 206; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, p. 173; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 180; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, p. 146; Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, pp. 416–416; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, pp. 308–309.

3.     Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 206; Gerald Jasmer, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, to author, April 23, 2013 email.

4.     Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 11, 18–20, 28, 33–34, 95, 206, 208–209; Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, pp. 308–309.

5.     Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 25, 27; New York Herald, August 8, 1876.

6.     Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 214; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 149–155; Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, pp. 414–418, 421–424.

7.     Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 95, 100.

8.     Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 33; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, p. 173.

9.     Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 15, 17.

10.   Ibid., p. 156.

11.   Ibid., p. 215; John Koster, Custer Survivor, The End of a Myth, the Beginning of a Legend (Palisades, N.Y.: Chronology Books, 2010), p. 8.

12.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 162.

13.   Koster, Custer Survivor, pp. 18–19.

14.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 216.

15.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50; Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 89; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 307.

16.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 41–42.

17.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 11, 46, and note 1, 75; Marquis, Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 84; Wert, Custer, p. 340; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 205; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 35.

18.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 208.

19.   Ibid., p. 209.

20.   Ibid., pp. 106, 209–210.

21.   Ibid., p. 205.

22.   Ibid., p. 160; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 3.

23.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 178.

24.   Marquis, Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 84; Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 35; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 93–94.

25.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 101.

26.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50.

27.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 188.

28.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 152, 153, note 3.

29.   Ibid., p. 11.

30.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 57, 59.

31.   Ibid., p. 82 and note 1.

32.   New York Herald, June 27, 1867.

33.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 33; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, pp. 163, 166; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 110–111.

34.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 31; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 327.

35.   Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 206; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 94.

36.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, pp. 163, 165.

37.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 314.

38.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 110; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 289.

39.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 34.

40.   Ibid., p. 3; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 110, 114; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 289; Linderman, Plenty-Coups, p. 127.

41.   Monaghan, Custer, p. 387; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 175; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, pp. 289–290.

42.   Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 20, 177, 215, 276, 365; Barnard Ten Years with Custer, p. 290; Military Service Records, Record Group 94, National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Sklenar, To Hell With Glory, pp. 39, 88, 111–117, 143, 337; Wert, Custer, p. 342; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 65; James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard, Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005), p. 31; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 157–158; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 111.

43.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 49–50, 75, 80–84, 116–117, 119, 124; Myles Dungan, Distant Drums, Irish Soldiers in Foreign Armies (Belfast, Ireland: Appletree Press, 1993), p. 42; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 117; Drinnon, Facing West, p. xvii; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 82, 100, 109, 147, 340; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, p. 220.

44.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 108; Wert, Custer, pp. 342–343; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, pp. 60, 67; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, pp. 319–320.

45.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 114, 122–125.

46.   Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 113; Merington The Custer Story, p. 239; Wert, Custer, p. 321; Nichols Men with Custer, p. 76; Roy Bird, The Better Brother, Tom and George Custer and the Battle for the American West (New York: Turner Publishing Company, 2011), pp. xii–xiii, 18–230.

47.   Merington, The Custer Story, pp. 179–180, 217; Graham, The Custer Story, pp. 5, 52, 71–72, 85.

48.   Wert, Custer, p. 337; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 95; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 5, 52, 71–72, 85.

49.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, pp. 30–31; Joan Nabseth Stevenson, Deliverance from the Little Big Horn, Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), p. 71.

50.   Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 96.

51.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 24.

52.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 84.

53.   Ibid.

54.   Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 190, 289; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 218–221; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 32–36; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, pp. 317–320; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, p. 169; Stevenson, Deliverance from the Little Big Horn, p. 73.

55.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 128.

56.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 111–114, 218–221; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 35.

57.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 113–114, 131.

58.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 132–134.

59.   Ibid., p. 135; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289; Wert, Custer, pp. 343–344.

60.   Wert, Custer, pp. 343–344; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, pp. 319–320; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 32–33.

61.   Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyenne, p. 348.

62.   Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 30–31; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 119–120; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289.

63.   Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 120.

64.   Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 31; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 33–34; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 149.

65.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289.

66.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 249.

67.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 291; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 124.

68.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 291.

69.   Ibid; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 288.

70.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 41, 185; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 149, 289; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 305; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 18, 63–64.

71.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, pp. 195, 211; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 288.

72.   Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 33–34; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 87–88; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 5.

73.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289.

74.   Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 177; Wert, Custer, p. 348; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 73; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 149, 289, 328; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 36; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 152–155.

75.   Wert, Custer, p. 354; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 73; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 152–155.

76.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 94; Mari Sandoz, The Battle of the Little Bighorn (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966), p. 115.

77.   Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 8, 31, 73; Wert, Custer, pp. 348–349; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 149, 289; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 51; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 194–195.

78.   Wert, Custer, pp. 348–349; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 289; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 74; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 197; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290.

79.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 46.

80.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 290; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 197.

81.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 64, 82–83, 95; Gregory F. Michno, Lakota Noon, The Indian Narrative of Custer’s Defeat (Missoula, Mo.: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2004), p. 98.

82.   Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 101.

83.   Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290.

84.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 262.

85.   Burst, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 73; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 98–99; Wert, Custer, p. 349; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 414; Frederic C. Wagner, III, The Strategy of Defeat at the Little Bighorn, A Military and Timing Analysis of the Battle (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing Company, 2014), p. 113. Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, p. 174.

86.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 151, 153, and note 20; Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 67; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290; Geoffrey Regan, Great Military Disasters (New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1987), pp. 22–23; Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, p. 436.

87.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 179.

88.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 262; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 316.

89.   Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 9; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 99; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. xiii; Walt Cross, Thompson and White’s Little Big Horn Narratives of 1876 (Stillwater, Okla.: Dire Wolf Books, 2011), p. 246; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, pp. 172–173.

90.   Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 206–207; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 9; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290; Regan, Great Military Disasters, pp. 22–23; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 338; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 152–153.

91.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 290.

92.   Ibid.; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 62, 206–207; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 69; MSR, RG 94, NA.

93.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 290.

94.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 222; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 261; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, p. 166.

95.   Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, p. 161; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 290.

96.   Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 152–153.

97.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 25; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 338; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 133.

98.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 290; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 9.

99.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11.

100. Hatch, Glorious War, p. 24.

101. New York Herald, June 28, 1876.

102. Ibid.

103. Hatch, Glorious War, p. 24; Merington, The Custer Story, pp. 178, 262; Daria Olivier, The Burning of Moscow 1812 (London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1966), p. 157.

104. Mueller, Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, pp. 3–4, 13; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 34–36, 41, 86, 142–144, 146; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 414; Monaghan, Custer, pp. 385–386; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 202, 289–290.

105. Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 357; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290; Merington, The Custer Story, p. 98.

106. Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 133, 138; Bird, The Better Brother, p. 109.

107. Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, pp. 352, 412; Wert, Custer, p. 342; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 33; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 290.

108. Wert, Custer, p. 342.

109. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 100; Johnston, Fischer, and Geer, Custer’s Horses, p. 13; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 345; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, pp. 166, 168.

110. Merrington, The Custer Story, pp. 250, 307.

111. Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 155–156; Merington, The Custer Story, p. 303; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 110.

112. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 73–74; Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, p. 360; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 317–319.

113. Merington, The Custer Story, p. 198.

114. Hardorff, Hokahey!, p. 62; Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 25, note 2.

115. Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 100; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 435; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 90, 92; Gerald “Jerry” Jasmer, Park Ranger, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana, two emails to author, August 29, 2015; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, pp. 172–173; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. viii.

116. Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 35; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 308.

117. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 137; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 121.

118. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 46.

119. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 33; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 241–243.

120. Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 107; Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 212, 213; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290.

121. Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 121, 167, 209, 212, 215, 381.

122. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 43; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 469.

123. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 104.

124. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 50 and 51, note 2.

125. Sandoz, The Battle of the Little Bighorn, p. 116; Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 109.

126. Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 222–224; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, pp. 74–75.

127. Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72.

128. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 43; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 98; Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 214.

129. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 43.

130. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11; Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 28.

131. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 222–224; Merrington, The Custer Story, p. 303.

132. Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 185.

133. Merington, The Custer Story, p. 119.

Chapter IV

1.     Merington, The Custer Story, p. 179.

2.     Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 262; Wert, Custer, p. 333; Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 357; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 28; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, pp. 258–259; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 29.

3.     Schultz, Coming Through Fire, p. 212; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, p. 218; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 55.

4.     Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, p. 157.

5.     Morris, Sheridan, p. 362; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 76–79; Merington, The Custer Story, p. 239; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 108.

6.     Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 147; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 56.

7.     Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 61–62; Bird, The Better Brother, pp. 216–217.

8.     Stewart, Custer’s Luck, pp. 414, 494; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 26–43, 203–204, 218–239, 260, 263, 267; Gerald Jasmer, Little Bighorn National Battlefield, email to author, April 24, 2013; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, p. 274; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, pp. 168–170.

9.     Bird, The Better Brother, pp. 169, 217–218; Kenneth Hammer, editor, Custer in ’76, Walter Camp’s Notes on the Custer Fight (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976), p. 86; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 26–43, 203–204, 218–239, 269, 263, 267–268, 274, 340–341; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 272, 275–276; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 9, 75; Nichols Men with Custer, p. 124; Custer, Tenting on the Plains, p. 234; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 108, 110; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 43.

10.   Brian W. Dippie, Custer’s Last Stand, The Anatomy of an American Myth (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), p. 127; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86.

11.   John C. Lockwood Memoir, John C. Lockwood Papers, 1860–1926, OCLC No. 12254–5861, 3 Volumes of Memoirs, Huntington Library, San Marino, California; Four Miscellaneous Letters from Elizabeth Bacon-Custer to John C. Lockwood, HM 65754, HM 65763, HM 65764, and HM 65765, John C. Lockwood Papers, Huntington Library, Marino, California; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, pp. 181, 248; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 242; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 188; MSR, RG 94, NA; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 20–48, 56; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 277, 389, 394–395; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 108, 110; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 274.

12.   Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 14–49; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 132; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 188.

13.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 210; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86.

14.   Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 274.

15.   Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Four Miscellaneous Letters from Elizabeth Bacon-Custer to John C. Lockwood-Custer to Lockwood, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. xxv, 13–58; Hammer, ed., Custer in ’76, p. 86; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 100, 277, 394–395; Barnard, I Go with Custer, pp. 77–87; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 132; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 75; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 188, 205, 227; MSR, RG 94, NA; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 108, 110; Koster, Custer Survivor, pp. 11–197; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 233, 274.

16.   Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Koster, Custer Survivor, pp. 11–197; MSR, RG 94, NA; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. v, xxi, 14–70; Hammer, Custer in ’76, pp. 92–93; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 170, 206–207, 215, 277.

17.   Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72, 272; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 108, 110; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 213, 274; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86.

18.   Brust Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 75; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 188, 227.

19.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 184–165; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 290; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 108, 110; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 274; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 75; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86.

20.   Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 272; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 290; Pennington Custer Vindicated, pp. 108, 110; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 274, 340–341; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 75.

21.   Mueller, Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, pp. 15, 19; Monaghan, Custer, pp. 385–386; Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, pp. 44–45; Wert, Custer, p. 335; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 93, 100, 274, 340–341; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 108, 110; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 272; Bird, The Better Brother, pp. 48, 52–53, 64, 194; Charles E. Rankin, ed., Legacy, New Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1996), p. 153.

22.   Merrington, The Custer Story, p. 266.

23.   Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, pp. 46–54, 92, 95, note 90, page 51; Monaghan, Custer, pp. 385–386; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 272, 289–290; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 108, 110; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 75; Bernard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 68; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 199–202, 211–212, 269, 274; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 67; Rankin, Legacy, p. 153; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 275, 365.

24.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 128; Bird, The Better Brother, pp. 48, 52–53, 64, 194.

25.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 179.

26.   Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 233, 307–308; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 100, 125; Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, p. 51; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, pp. 195–196; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 24–25; Douglas O. Scott, Robert A. Fox, Jr., Melissa A. Connor, and Dick Harmon, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of Little Bighorn (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), p. 248; MSR, RG 94, NA; Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 33; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 68; Bird, The Better Brother, pp. 194, 217; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 52, 269.

27.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

28.   Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 73–74, 269; Hammer, Custer in ’74, p. 172; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 75.

29.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11.

30.   Ibid., pp. 84–85.

31.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 46.

32.   Ibid., p. 74, note 4.

33.   Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, pp. 46–47; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 17; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290.

34.   Mueller, Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, pp. 4, 6, 31, 34; MSR, RG 94, NA; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 231; Eric J. Wittenberg, editor, and Karla Jean Husby, compiler, Under Custer’s Command, The Civil War Journal of James Henry Avery (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2000), p. xiii; Monaghan, Custer, pp. 370–371, 373–376, 385–386; Philbrick, Custer’s Last Stand, p. 218; Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 272, 289–290; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 1–367; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–48; Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, pp. 44–45, 51; Merington, The Custer Story, pp. 253, 296; Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, p. 155; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 222–228, 245–246; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Wert, Custer, pp. 340, 342; Lehman, Bloodshed at Little Bighorn, p. 44; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 32–33, 49, 77–78, 90, 97–98, 274; Hardoff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 82; Rankin, Legacy, p. 153; Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 178, 215–216.

35.   Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 222–223.

36.   Ibid; Bird, The Better Brother, p. 103.

37.   Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 191, 210; Monaghan, Custer, pp. 370, 386; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 90; Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, p. 166.

38.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 294.

39.   Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, pp. 8–14, 20; Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 18.

40.   Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, pp. 87, 89–90.

41.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 71.

42.   MSR, RG 94, NA; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 52–53, 72–74, 95, 125, 199–202, 274; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 62, 74, 76, 89, 100–101, 130, 160, 216, 272, 300, 341; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 9, 205, note 5; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 218–219; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–48; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 298; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, pp. 55, 83, 123, 125, 127; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL, Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, pp. 151, 153, 163; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 135–136, 272; Barnard Ten Years with Custer, p. 68; Shultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 222–223; Johnston, Fischer, and Geer, Custer’s Horses, p. 51;.Merington, The Custer Story, pp. 61, 66, 232, 253; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 3; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 65, 67–68, 85, 150–153, 190, 204; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 49, note 17, and p. 55, note 2, and page 104, note 14; Taylor, with Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 65; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 172; Edward B. Cummings, “Steamboat at the Little Big Horn,” On Post, vol. 13, no. 3 (2007–2008), p. 10; Thomas, Canadians With Custer, pp. 17, 51–57, 91–99, 105, 192; Bird, The Better Brother, pp. 2–230; Kostser, Custer Survivor, pp. 35–36.

43.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 125; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 197–198.

44.   Sandy Barnard, I Go with Custer, The Life and Death of Reporter Mark Kellogg (Bismacrk, N.D.: The Bismarck Tribune, 1996), pp. 5–117, 123, 130–141; Sandy Bernard, Digging into Custer’s Last Stand, (Terre Haute, Ind.: AST Press, 1988), p. 107; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 173–174; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 65; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 130; Stevenson, Deliverance from the Little Big Horn, p. 12.

45.   Barnard, I Go with Custer, p. 79.

46.   Ibid., p. 98.

47.   Merrington, The Custer Story, pp. 305–306.

48.   Donovan, A Terrible Glory, p. 85; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, pp. 138–139.

49.   Bismarck Tribune, June 14, 1876.

50.   Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; MSR, RG 94, NA.

51.   Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 89.

52.   Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 261; Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 33; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290.

53.   Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 218–219.

54.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 133.

55.   Ibid., p. 178; Bird, The Better Brother, pp. 23–234.

56.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290.

57.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 50 and 51, note 2.

58.   Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 31, 102, 104; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 289–290; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 73–74; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com. library, internet.

59.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 102.

60.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

61.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, pp. 45–46; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 288.

62.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50; Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 350; Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 102.

63.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 50 and 51, note 4.

64.   Ibid.; Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 350; Bob Snelson, Death of a Myth: Seventh Cavalry at the Little Bighorn, June 25–26, 1876 (private printing, 2002), p. 93; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 289–290.

65.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 296; MSR, RG 94, NA; Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 37; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 1–364; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 274; Stevenson, Deliverance from the Little Big Horn, pp. 110–111.

66.   Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. xxv, 47, 55–56; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL.

67.   Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 350; Ryan, Custer Fell First, p. 47; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 32–34; Hatch, Glorious War, pp. 105–299; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 272.

68.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 11.

69.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 68; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 126.

70.   Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 301, 321.

71.   Ibid., pp. 20, 317.

72.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 135; Koster, Custer Survivor, pp. 33, 37; Barnard Ten Years with Custer, p. 68.

73.   Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 275; Reedstorm, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 122

74.   Sklenar, To ell with Honor, p. 58.

75.   Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 91; MSR, RG 94, NA; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 231; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 89, 216, 341.

76.   Merrington, The Custer Story, p. 307; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 17; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 188; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86.

77.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 16; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 356.

78.   Elizabeth B. Custer, Tenting on the Plains, General Custer in Kansas and Texas (New York: Barnes and Noble, 2006), p. 1.

79.   Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 261–263; Miles Doleac, In the Footsteps of Alexander, The King Who Conquered the Ancient World (New York: Metro Books, 2014), p. 60.

Chapter V

1.     Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 9

2.     Johnston, Fischer, and Geer, Custer’s Horses, p. 53; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 9, 25; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 145; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. vii–269.

3.     Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 9.

4.     Mails, Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women, p. 20; Fox, Archeology, History, and Custer’s Last Stand, p. 280; Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, pp. 350, 357; Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 40, 114, note 13, and p. 115, note 18; Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 101–102; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 274; Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50; Lehman, Bloodshed at Little Bighorn, p. 105; Rankin Legacy, p. 153; Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 11, 39, 56–57, 211–212; Bird, The Better Brother, pp. 194, 217–230; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com. library, internet; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 43.

5.     Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 103–104.

6.     Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 350; Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 115, note 18, and p. 179; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 102.

7.     Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 115, note 18; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 123–124; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Bird, The Better Brother, p. 215; Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 102, 104, 118.

8.     Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 350; Rankin, ed., Legacy, p. 152; Lehman, Bloodshed at Little Bighorn, p. 105.

9.     Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50.

10.   Ibid.; Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 229–230; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 123–125; Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 350; Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 50, p. 51, note 3, and p. 51, note 5; Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 102, 104, 118; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 27–28, 139; David A. Dary, The Buffalo Book, The Saga of an American Symbol (New York: Avon Books, 1974), p. 63; Bird, The Better Brother, p. 122.

11.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 50, 51, note 2, and p. 52, note 6; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 102; Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 125; Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, p. 30; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Richard Hook, Warriors at the Little Bighorn 1876 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, Inc., 2004), p. 11; Rankin Legacy, p. 122.

12.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 102; Cross, Thompson and White’s Little Big Horn Narratives 1876, p. 246; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

13.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 102.

14.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 114, note 13; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 101; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 124–125; Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 187.

15.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 48–50; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

16.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 108, 110.

17.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50; Sandoz, The Battle of the Little Bighorn, p. 115; Merington The Custer Story, p. 303.

18.   Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 11.

19.   Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 2–3.

20.   Ibid., pp. 127, 142, 157.

21.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 225.

22.   White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 83–84; Hook, Warriors of the Little Bighorn 1876, pp. 10–13.

23.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 83–84.

24.   Merington, The Custer Story, p. 303.

25.   Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, p. 89; Hook, Warriors of the Little Bighorn 1876, pp. 10–13.

26.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 113, 115; Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 101, 117–118; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 103, 134; Johnston, Fischer, and Geer, Custer’s Horses, pp. 13–14; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 53; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 16.

27.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 118; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72.

28.   Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; Hook, Warriors at the Little Bighorn 1876, pp. 7, 9; Rankin, Legacy, p. 122; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 40, 113, 115; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

29.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 69–70.

30.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 65.

31.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 69–70; Hardorff, Ceyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 50.

32.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 115.

33.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 230.

34.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 114.

35.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 29, 50; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 106.

36.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 115, note 19; Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 11; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 147, 231, 289–290.

37.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 118; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 307; Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 102; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 117; Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 125; Lehman, Bloodshed at Little Bighorn, p. 106; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 222–224; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 85, 289–290; Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, p. 280.

38.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 85.

39.   Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 117; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444.

40.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 142.

41.   White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 118.

42.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 102.

43.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 64.

44.   Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 125; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 85; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 33, 62, 73–74.

45.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 64–65; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 222–224; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 33–34.

46.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 52; Hook, Warriors of the Little Bighorn, p. 11.

47.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 15; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 356.

48.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 272; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

49.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 118; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11.

50.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 118.

51.   Ibid., pp. 104, note 195, 118–119; Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 85, 289–290; Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, p. 280; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Rankin, Legacy, p. 152; Hook, Warriors of the Little Bighorn 1876, p. 12.

52.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119; Marquis, Wooden Leg, pp. 35–37; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 88.

53.   Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, p. 48; Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 127; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 103; Song of Solomon, 6:10, BibleGateway, internet; Hook, Warriors of the Little Bighorn 1876, p. 9; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11.

54.   Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 121; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

55.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 15; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Ryan, Custer Fell First, p. 48.

56.   Ibid., p. 16; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–48; SR, Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; MRG 94, NA; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 87; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

57.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

58.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL.

59.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11.

60.   Ibid., p. 85.

61.   The Billings Gazette (Billings, Montana), May 27, 1961.

62.   Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 121; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103.

63.   Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 120–121; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444.

64.   White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 120–121; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103.

65.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 16.

66.   Ibid., p. 11.

67.   Ibid., p. 72.

68.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 108.

69.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; MSR, RG 94, NA; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 85; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL.

70.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 102; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72.

71.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

72.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72.

73.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, p. 109.

74.   Dean K. Boorman, The History of Winchester Firearms (Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, 2001), pp. 6–10, 30–46.

75.   Ibid., pp. 12–29; Wiley Sword, The Historic Henry Rifle, Oliver’s Winchester’s Famous Civil War Repeater (Lincoln, Neb.: Andrew Mowbray Publishers, 2002), pp. 8–66; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

76.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 72; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119; Scott, Fox, Conner, and Harmon, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn, pp. 188–189, 191; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 85; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Hook, Warriors of the Little Bighorn 1876, p. 11.

77.   Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, p. 30.

78.   Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72.

79.   Custer, Tenting on the Plains, pp. 242, 247; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 87; Sklenar, To Hell With Honor, p. 52.

80.   Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 11; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 203; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 307–308.

81.   Mails, Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women, pp. 20, 42, 46, 49–50; Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 12; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 40, 140, 184; Scott, Fox, Connor, and Harmon, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn, p. 86; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 102; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 29, 35–36, 43, 52, 76.

82.   Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 118–119; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72.

83.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 221.

84.   Mails, Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women, pp. 26–28; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

85.   Mails, Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women, p. 35; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 123–124; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, p. 147; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 87; Hook, Warriors at the Little Bighorn 1876, pp. 10, 41.

86.   Grinnel, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 338; Charles M. Robinson, III, The Plains Wars, 1757–1900 (New York: Osprey Limited Publishing, 2003), p. 9; Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 49.

87.   Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, p. 33; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 88.

88.   Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 118–119.

89.   Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, p. 30; Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 77.

90.   Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 179.

91.   Hatch, Glorious War, p. 123; Bird, The Better Brother, p. 221.

92.   Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 76; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 72 and 73, note 2; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 116, 129; Bird, The Better Brother, pp. 176, 214, 239; Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, p. 90; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 72; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 299.

93.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 73, note 2, 115, 119; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 57, 289, 346; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 150–153, 157, note 25; Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, p. 90.

94.   Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

95.   Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, p. xiii.

96.   Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 119.

97.   Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 128.

98.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 257; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

99.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 257.

100. White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103.

101. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

102. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103.

103. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

104. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 154.

105. Merington, The Custer Story, p. 287.

106. Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 88.

107. Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 273.

108. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 9.

109. Scott, Fox, Connor, and Harmon, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn, pp. 104–113, 117–121, 124–130, 162–166; Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, pp. 55–56, 78–80, 87, 96, 103–111, 250, 253.

110. Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 109; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 341; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 55; Bird, The Better Brother, p. 176.

111. Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 273; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 100.

112. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 112.

113. Ibid., pp. 71–72.

114. Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 129; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; 47–49; Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Koster, Custer Survivor, pp. 33, 37; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

115. Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 37; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 130.

116. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, pp. 247–249, 250, 254; Hook, Warriors of the Little Bighorn 1876, p. 11.

117. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 80–86; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 136–137.

118. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, pp. 123, 299; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 47, 74, 177; Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, p. 52; MSR, RG 94, NA; Merington, The Custer Story, p. 236; Custer, Tenting on the Plains, p. 245; Bird, The Better Brother, pp. 176–177.

119. Nichols, Men with Custer, pp.140, 184; Coldwater Republican (Coldwater, Michigan), July 11, 1876; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 7, 14, 24–25, 29, 125, 141, 149, 163, 204, 215, 225–226; Walt Cross, Out West with Custer and Crook, Verling K. Hart, 7th U. S. Cavalry (Stillwater, Okla.: Dire Wolf Books, 2011), pp. 93–94.

120. Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 146, 163; Walt Cross, editor, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn (Stillwater, Okla.: Cross Publications, 2007), p. 90.

121. Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 103, 146; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 37; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72.

122. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 126; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 146; Hammer, ed., Custer in ’76, p. 97; Cross Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90.

123. Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90.

124. Ibid.

125. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 40–41, 54.

126. Ibid.; Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90.

127. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 95, 126.

128. Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, p. 145; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

129. Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 120; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 97.

130. Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 37; Hammer, Custer in ’76, pp. 157, 162, 207 and note 5; Nichols Men with Custer, p. 44; Scott, Fox, Connor, and Harmon, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn, p. 7.

131. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banner and War Bonnets, p. 138; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444.

132. Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119.

133. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444; Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 146, 204; Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 128; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72, 346; Hammer Custer in ’76, p. 87; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138.

134. MSR, RG 94, NA; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

135. MSR, RG 94, NA; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 341; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Barnard, I Go with Custer, p. 144.

136. Barnard, I Go with Custer, p. 144; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

137. Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 89; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 49, note 17; MSR, RG 94, NA.

138. Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer fell First, pp. 47–49; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72; MSR, RG 94, NA; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

139. Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 160; Barnard, I Go with Custer, p. 144; MSR, RG 94, NA; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 270; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444.

140. Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103.

141. Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 128; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

142. Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 205, note 5; MSR, RG 94, NA; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 160.

143. Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119.

144. Bernard, Digging into Custer’s Last Stand, p. 107.

145. Ibid.

146. MSR, RG 94, NA; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 42; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

147. Nichols Men with Custer, p. 173; Barnard, I Go with Custer, p. 128.

148. Barnard, I Go with Custer, p. 144.

149. Ibid., p. 141.

150. MSR, RG 94, NA; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

151. MSR, RG 94, NA; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 103, 104, 163, 204; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Rankin Legacy, pp. 73–74; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72, 260, 346.

152. Daily Record, (Greensboro, North Carolina), April 27, 1924; Nichols Men with Custer, p. 170.

153. Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 321–322; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 28, 125–126, 163; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 17; MSR, RG 94, NA; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, p. 124.

154. Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 260, 346; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 104, 126, 163, 204; Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of Little Big Horn, p. 90.

155. Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 112, 204, note 9; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 260, 346.

156. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 16–17.

157. Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 146; Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90.

158. Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 146, 163.

159. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 39.

160. Barnard, Ten Years With Custer, p. 80; Cross Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90.

161. Barnard Ten Years with Custer, p. 302.

162. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 146, 163, 179; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 260, 346.

163. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 260.

164. Hammer, Custer in ’76, pp. 147, 177; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 163.

165. Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 128–130; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 20, 40; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; MSR, RG 94, NA; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72.

166. Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 128–130; Rankin Legacy, pp. 73–74; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 130; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72.

167. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 260.

168. Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 350; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 128–130; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; MSR, RG 94, NA; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 441; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 9.

169. Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 128–130; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72; Hammer Custer in ’76, p. 86; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 274; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

170. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 29.

171. Ibid., pp. 33, 35–36; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138.

172. Bernard, Digging into Custer’s Last Stand, pp. 105, 114; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 128–130; Hardorff, Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

173. Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 350; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49.

174. Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, p. 350.

175. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 181; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11.

176. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 40, 48, note 15; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11, 72.

177. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 48; Barnard Ten Years with Custer, p. 68.

178. Hardorff, Cheyenne Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 42–43.

179. Ibid., p. 52.

180. Barnard, Ten Years with Custer p. 306; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86.

181. Hardorff, Cheyenne Views of the Custer Fight, p. 43.

182. Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 118.

183. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138.

184. Hardorff, Cheyenne Views of the Custer Fight, p. 43; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 306; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 188; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86.

185. John Martin Folder, Walter Mason Camp Manuscript, 1873–1918, Collection No. LMC 1167, Field Notes, vol. 3, The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

186. Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 226; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72.

187. Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 37; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11, 72; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 128–130; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72.

188. Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 37; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

189. MSR, RG 94, NA; Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 37; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 40, 48, and note 15; Reedstorm, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Dungan, Distant Drums, pp. 45–47; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 75, 197, note 32; Lockwood Papers, LP, HL; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72, 188, 345; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 128–130; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 222–224; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 68; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 108, 110; Nichols Men with Custer, pp. 12, 177, 196; Hook, Warriors of the Little Big Horn 1876, p. 41; Hammer Custer in ’73, pp. 86–87, 102; Rankin Legacy, pp. 73–74; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 54–55, 83, 213, 274.

190. Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 44; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners, and War Bonnets, p. 138; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86.

191. Donovan, A Terrible Glory, p. 218; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 7, 126, 163, 204; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 177, 264–265; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 346; Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 255; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 103.

192. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 346.

193. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138; Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 39.

194. MSR, RG 94, NA; Edward Godfrey, “Custer Last Battle,” Century Magazine, (1892), p. 381; Nichols Men with Custer, pp. 44–45, 121–122.

195. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 183–184.

196. Nichols Men with Custer, pp. 153–154.

197. Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, p. 47; Hammer Custer in ’76, p. 86.

198. Snelson, Death of a Myth, p. 93; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 128–130; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72; Hammer Custer in ’76, p. 86.

199. Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 7, 150–154, 157, note 25; Bird, The Best Brother, p. 214; Reedstorm, Bugles, Banners, and War Bonnets, p. 299.

200. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 41.

201. Ibid., p. 40; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

202. Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, p. 285.

203. Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 172–173; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 97.

204. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138.

205. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 35–36.

206. Ibid.; Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 108–110; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp.13–56; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 128–130.

207. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11.

208. Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, pp. 43–44; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 441; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 177.

209. Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72, 345; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 121; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 128–130; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 441.

210. Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 128; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

211. Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 258.

212. Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, p. 272; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 84; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 290; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 51; Quaife My Life on the Plains, p. 5.

213. Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 28; Hammer, Custer in ’76, 84.

214. Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 257.

215. Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 121.

216. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 330; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11, 72; Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 275; Miller, Custer’s Fall, pp. 128–130; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 119–121; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

217. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 330; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 197; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 188; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 119–121, 187, 195, 197; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 441.

218. Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 345; Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 258; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

219. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 330; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 76.

220. Miller, Custer’s Fall, p. 128.

221. Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 377; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 72, 188; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 119–121; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 448; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

222. Merington, The Custer Story, p. 274.

223. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 115.

224. Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 16, 72; Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 258.

225. Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 28.

226. Ibid., p. 185.

227. Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 16, 72, 254, 289; Rankin Legacy, pp. 73–74; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 255–258; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, p. 308.

228. Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 100; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 200, 305; Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, pp. 296–299.

229. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 346.

230. Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 15.

231. Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103.

232. Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 197, note 32; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 190; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, pp. 349–352.

233. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 110; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

234. Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. vii–269; Michno, Lakota Noon, pp. 190; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, pp. 349–352.

235. Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 9, 75; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 274; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 86; MSR, RG 94, NA.

236. Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 272–273; Hammer Custer in ’76, p. 86.

237. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 45, 47.

238. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 23.

239. Ibid., p. 11.

240. Ibid., p. 188.

241. Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 48, 56; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 188, 227.

242. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 260.

243. Ibid., p. 11.

244. Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 76; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 188, 227.

245. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 188.

246. Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, p. 253; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72, 188, 227; MSR, RG 94, NA; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

247. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; MSR, RG 94, NA; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

248. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 52.

249. Ibid., pp. 37, 39–40.

250. Ibid., p. 75.

251. Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 120; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11.

252. Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 380.

253. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 119; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72.

254. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72.

255. Pohanka, A Summer on the Plains with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, p. 126; Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, p. 75; Cross, Thompson and White’s Little Big Horn Narratives of 1876, p. 248; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, pp. 98, 108.

256. Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 72, 75.

257. Ibid., p. 75; Johnston, Fischer, and Geer, Custer’s Horses, pp. 2, 25–40, 48–58, 62–65; Donald W. Engels, Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), pp. 126–127; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 179.

258. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 71.

259. Skenlar, To Hell with Honor, p. 207.

260. Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 35; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 331.

261. Ladenheim, Custer’s Thorn, p. 169; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 331.

262. Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 308–309; MSR, RG 94, NA.

263. Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 50; Hammer, Custer in ’76, pp. 118–119.

264. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 193.

265. Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 60.

266. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 54.

267. Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 37.

268. Michno, Lakota Noon, p. 119.

269. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 186.

270. Nichols, Custer Fell First, pp. 183–184; Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 37.

271. Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 100; Koster, Custer Survivor, pp. 38, 47.

272. Johnston, Fischer, and Geer, Custer’s Horses, pp. 2, 25–40, 48–58, 62–65; Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 37.

273. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 178.

274. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 151.

275. Ibid.; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 183–184; John M. Carroll, Custer’s Chief of Scouts, The Reminiscences of Charles A. Varnum (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987), p. 119; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

276. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 43; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; MSR, RG 94, NA; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 98–99; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

277. Cross, Out West with Custer and Crook, p. 83.

278. Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 183; Johnston, Fischer, and Geer, Custer’s Horses, pp. 25–77; Dary, The Buffalo Book, p. 31.

279. Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 204.

280. Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 172–173.

281. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138.

282. Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 260, 346; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 97.

283. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

284. Ibid., pp. 40–41; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 307.

285. Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 291.

286. Hardorff, Indians Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

287. Ibid.; Phibrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 103–104; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72, 346; MSR, RG 94, NA; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 441; MSR, RG 94, NA.

288. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72.

289. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 186.

290. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 36.

291. Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, pp. 84–85; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 74–75.

292. Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 103–105; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 179.

293. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 94.

294. Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 197, note 32; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

295. Ryan, Custer Fell First, p. xiii; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

296. Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, p. 49.

297. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

298. Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 139; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL.

299. Wert, Custer, p. 348; Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. viii; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 130–132; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 441; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 29, 35–36, 43, 52, 76; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; MSR, RG 94, NA; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 281; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72, 142, 264.

300. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 291; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 350.

301. Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 18–25; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. vii–202; Wert, Custer, p. 348.

302. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 264; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 95; p. 146; MSR, RG 94, NA; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 74–75.

303. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 76.

304. Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 142; MSR, RG 94, NA; Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, p. 280.

305. MSR, RG 94, NA; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 281; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 142; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 121; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258.

306. Bernard, Digging into Custer’s Last Stand, p. 6; Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, p. 280.

307. Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 36.

308. Ibid.

309. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 169; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

310. Pennington, Custer Vindicated, p. 119; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 188, Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 258; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 441; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

311. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

Chapter VI

1.     Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 119–121; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 188; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 441; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

2.     Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 163; Barnard Ten Years with Custer, p. 89.

3.     Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 85–86.

4.     Ibid., p. 40.

5.     Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 258; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 85–86; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

6.     Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 76.

7.     Ibid., p. 126.

8.     Ibid., p. 98; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 289–290.

9.     Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 229; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 188; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Marshall, The Day that World Ended at Little Bighorn, p. 72.

10.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 229; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258.

11.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 381.

12.   Ibid., p. 230.

13.   Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 85; Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 213; Sandoz, The Battle of Little Bighorn, p. 120; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 110.

14.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 228.

15.   Sandoz, The Battle of Little Bighorn, pp. 119–120; Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, pp. 55–56, 78–80, 87, 96, 103–114, 250, 253.

16.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 62.

17.   Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49, 52–53.

18.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, pp. 55–56, 78–80, 87, 96, 103–114, 250, 253–255; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72.

19.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 273.

20.   Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, pp. 16–17.

21.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 11; Marshall, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, pp. 11, 16.

22.   Mails, Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women, pp. 17, 26–29, 31–33.

23.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, p. 258; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

24.   Chicago Times (Chicago, Illinois), July 22, 1876.

25.   Chanute Times (Chanute, Kansas), July 13, 1876; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 9, 261; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; MSR, RG 94, NA; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 188.

26.   Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 188, 221; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

27.   New York Times (New York, New York), July 7, 1876; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72.

28.   Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 78.

29.   Ibid., p. 75.

30.   George W. Glenn Paper, Walter Camp Collection, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Montana; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 121.

31.   Glenn Paper, LBBNM.

32.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 301.

33.   Marquis, Wooden Leg, p. 12.

34.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 306.

35.   Ibid., p. 85.

36.   Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 138.

37.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

38.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72.

39.   Bernard, Digging into Custer’s Last Stand, p. 6; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 9.

40.   Bernard, Digging into Custer’s Last Stand, p. 105.

41.   Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 10.

42.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 303; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 197–198.

43.   Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 87; Nichols Men with Custer, p. 329.

44.   Barnard, Digging into Custer’s Last Stand, pp. 111, 114; Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 166.

45.   Rankin, ed., Legacy, pp. 197–198; Barnard, Digging into Custer’s Last Stand, pp. 105, 114; Scott, Fox, Connor, and Harmon, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of Little Bighorn, p. 246; Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 87.

46.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, pp. 40–41.

47.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 76; MSR, RG 94, NA; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 260, 346; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, pp. 443–444.

48.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 377; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 121.

49.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 118; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 147.

50.   Scott, Fox, Connor, and Harmon, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of Little Bighorn, pp. 17, 19.

51.   Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 13, 127.

52.   Barnard, I Go with Custer, p. xv.

53.   Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 260, 377; MSR, RG 94, NA; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 115; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 321.

54.   Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 115–116; MSR, RG 94, NA; Nichols, Men with Custer, pp. 321–322.

55.   Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, p. 127; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, pp. 7, 103, 179; MSR, RG 94, NA.

56.   MSR, RG 94, NA; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 377; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

57.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 260.

58.   Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 146; Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90; Hammer, Custer in ’76, p. 87.

59.   The Pioneer Press and Tribune, September 8, 1876; Dippie, Custer’s Last Stand, p. 82.

60.   The Pioneer Press and Tribune, September, 8, 1876.

61.   Ibid.

62.   Ibid.

63.   Cross, Custer’s Missing Officer, p. 146; Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90.

64.   Dippie, Custer’s Last Stand, p. 82; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 188, 227.

65.   Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, p. 285; Hammer, Custer in ’76, pp. 87, 162, 207, 248, note 5; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 443.

Conclusion

1.     Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 178, 185.

2.     Ibid., p. 75; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 188, 227.

3.     Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 23.

4.     Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle, p. 21.

5.     Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

6.     Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

7.     Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 85.

8.     Ibid., p. 23.

9.     Ibid., pp. 23, 188, 227; The Sun (New York, New York), February 26, 1879; Brust, Pohanka and Barnard, Custer Fell Here, p. 9; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

10.   Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners, and War Bonnets, p. 133.

11.   Ibid., p. 230; Philbrick, A Terrible Glory, p. 281.

12.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 302; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 188, 227.

13.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 297.

14.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 29, 35–36, 43, 52, 76, 169; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72, 260, 346; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, pp. 443–444; Cross, Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Big Horn, p. 90.

15.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 169.

16.   Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. 119–121, 144–146; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; MSR, RG 94, NA; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 441; White Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet.

17.   Hardorff, Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight, p. 133; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 273; Brust, Pohanka, and Barnard, Where Custer Fell, pp. 9, 72; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72, 188, 227; White Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74, 122; Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 29, 35–36, 43, 52, 76.

18.   Walt Cross, Stillwater, Oklahoma, to author, July 7, 2015; Donovan, A Terrible Glory, pp. 261–263; Dippie, Custer’s Last Stand, pp. 1–144.

19.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 231.

20.   Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. xix, 12; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74, 122; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. ix–x, 245.

21.   Boorman, The History of Winchester Firearms, pp. 8, 46; Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, pp. 243–244, 271, 273–274, 279; Lehman, Bloodshed at Little Bighorn, p. 3; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Merington, The Custer Story, p. 292; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 29, 35–36, 43, 52, 76; Fox, Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Stand, pp. 55–56, 78–114, 250–255; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 5, 11, 52, 71–72, 85.

22.   Barnard, Ten Years with Custer, p. 243; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 288.

23.   Scott, Fox, Connor, and Harmon, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of Little Bighorn, pp.104–113, 117–121, 124–130, 162–166; Rankin, Legacy, p. 98.

24.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

25.   Dipple, Custer’s Last Stand, pp. 1–61, 89–107; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74.

26.   Ibid.; Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor, editors, Why We Fought, America’s Wars in Film and History (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008), p. 287; Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, pp. 29, 35–36, 43, 52, 76.

27.   Dipple, Custer’s Last Stand, pp. 1–61, 89–107; Ryan, Lockwood Memoir, LP, HL; Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11; Fox, Archaeology, History and Custer’s Last Battle, p. 278.

28.   Elliott, Custerology, pp. 124, 139.

29.   Ibid., p. 139.

30.   Koster, Custer Survivor, p. 5.

31.   Ibid.; Shultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. 2–4, 245.

32.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 72; Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, pp. 356–357; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103.

33.   Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyennes, pp. 357–358.

34.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 71; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 103; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49; Schultz, Coming Through Fire, pp. ix–245.

35.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 221.

36.   Snelson, Death of a Myth, p. 160; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 188, 227.

37.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 188.

38.   Ibid., p. 227.

39.   Ibid., 188, 227; Snelson, Death of a Myth, p. 160; Ryan, Custer Fell First, pp. 47–49.

40.   Hardorff, Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight, p. 76; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 118, 227; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

41.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 11; White Cow Bull’s Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40.

42.   Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 227.

43.   Ibid.

44.   Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 138.

45.   Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. vii–202.

46.   Ibid.; Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 70.

47.   Hardorff, Indian of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 327.

48.   Barnard, I Go with Custer, p. 142.

49.   New York Herald, August 1, 1876; Drinnon, Facing West, p. 261; Cross, Custer’s Lost Officer, p. 129; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 188; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 257–258.

50.   Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72; Dippie, Custer’s Last Stand, pp. 1–118; MSR, RG, NA; Rankin, Legacy, p. 94.

51.   Taylor, With Custer on the Little Bighorn, p. 71; Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, pp. 262, 340–341; Fox, Archeology, History, and the Custer Battle, p. 285; Pennington, Custer Vindicated, pp. vii–202.

52.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 262.

53.   Wittenberg and Husby, Under Custer’s Command, p. 147.

54.   Sklenar, To Hell with Honor, p. 328.

55.   Nichols, Men with Custer, p. 121; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 414.

56.   Sklenar, To Hell With Honor, p. 328; Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight, p. 40; Graham, The Custer Myth, p. 188.

57.   Reedstrom, Bugles, Banners and War Bonnets, p. 345; Graham, The Custer Myth, pp. 11, 72; Philbrick, The Last Stand, pp. 258, 319; White Cow Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn #1, astonisher@com.library, internet; Rankin, Legacy, pp. 73–74; Stewart, Custer’s Luck, p. 444.