Indian Views of the Custer Fight : A Source Book

Hardorff's third and final annotated volume of Indian testimony about the Battle of the Little Bighorn contains the observations of 29 Sioux and nine Cheyenne eyewitnesses extracted from letters, newspaper accounts, Army reports, and manuscripts. Their statements offer new perspectives on the movements of the cavalry and the Indian force from the point when the soldiers were first detected on their march toward the Indian settlement to the battle's end, revealing incidents that no other source could provide, Hardorff notes; he is the author of several works on the battle, Custer, and the Plains Indians, including the companions to this volume: Lakota recollections and Cheyenne memories . With nine maps. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)