Search Results: Little Big Horn from Focloir

Americana 038 (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876). Cheyenne memories of the Custer fight: a source book. (Series: Frontier military series; 18). Compiled and edited by Richard G. Hardorff. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 1995, 189p, bib, index, illus, maps. Fine in blue cloth with gilt titles, as befits the Seventh Cavalry colors. $23.50
Hardorff is a specialist on the battle and the author of some interesting books on the engagement. Sadly, with some notable exceptions, the white man seldom sought out the views of Native Americans on this or any other event.

Big Horn 1000 (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876). Russell, Don, 1899-1986. Custer's last; or, The Battle of the Little Big Horn in picturesque perspective, being a pictorial representation of the late and unfortunate incident in Montana as portrayed by Custer's friends and foes, admirers, and iconoclasts of his day and after. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1968, v, 67p, notes, bib, illus. (part col.). Very good in dust jacket. $10.00

Americana mcff McCreight, Major Israel, 1865- Firewater and forked tongues: a Sioux chief interprets U.S. history. Illustrations by Charles M. Russell. Pasadena, California: Trail's End Publishing. Company, 1947, xxiv, 180 p, index; 5 p. of plates (1 col.) (Excerpts ... have been ... published ... under the titles Chief Flying Hawk's tales (1936) and The Wigwam -- puffs from the peace pipe (1943). Very good copy in dust jacket. The spine to the dust jacket has separated but is laid into the book. $35.00 Box 711

Irish in America 2556js Lawrence, Elizabeth Atwood. His Very Silence Speaks: Comanche - The Horse who survived Custer's Last Stand. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989, 357 pages, frontis, illustrations, bib, index. First Edition. Comanche, ridden by the dashing Captain Myles Keogh at the Little Big Horn, was severely wounded but survived and lived until 1891. Fine in fine dust jacket. $27.50 Box 375

Americana vlbr (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876). Viola, Herman J. Little Bighorn remembered: the untold story of Custer's last stand. New York: Times Books, 1999, xiii, 239p, bib, index, illus., ports. Larger book, 9" x 12", nice illustrations. Fine copy in dust jacket.
Viola's many photographs and illustrations add a great deal to the understanding of the Native Americans who fought the Seventh Cavalry in that disastrous expedition

Irish in America 106ccp (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876/Keogh, Myles, 1840-1876). Coulombe, Charles A., 1960- The Pope's legion: the multinational fighting force that defended the Vatican. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 260p, bib, index, [8] p. of plates: illus. Very good in dust jacket. $14.50 Box A 106
Good background information on Keogh and other volunteers for Pope Pius IX in his struggle against the Savoys. Coulombe posits, along with others, that Keogh's body was not mutilated because "many of Sitting Bull's men were Catholic". Further research is necessary to validate the claim. (See also: Lucio Martino: Gli irlandesi contro i Savoia: il battaglione di San Patrizio nelle Marche e Umbria durante il Risorgimento: i reduci nelle guerre del Far West. The Irish against the Savoys).