Photographing Custer's Battlefield : The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen / Sandy Barnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roahen, Kenneth F., 1888-1976, photographer.

Barnard, Sandy, author, photographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roahen, Kenneth F., 1888-1976--Photograph collections.

Roahen, Kenneth F.

Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)--History--Pictorial works.

Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.).

Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)--Pictorial works.

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--Pictorial works.

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.).

Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xvii, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]

Contents:

Part I. The Little Big Horn

Researching the Custer Battlefield story

Roahen biographical sketch

Little Big Horn battle historical background

Part II. Kenneth F. Roahen's photographs

The Crow's Nest

Walter Camp's marker on the divide

From the divide to Reno Creek

The morass

Girard's Knoll

Major Reno's first crossing

Reno's advance down the valley

Reno valley fight and retreat crossing

Aerial photos of the Reno retreat crossing

Reno-Benteen defense site

Weir Point to Medicine Tail Coulee

Calhoun Hill, Finley-Finckle Ridge, and Battle Ridge

Keogh Sector

Below Custer Hill

Last Stand Hill

Entering the main battlefield

Visitor Center dedication, June 25, 1952

Roahen's 1951 aerial photos of the seventy-fifth anniversary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.

ISBN:

9780806151595

0806151595

OCLC:

915775092