The fights on the Little Horn companion : Gordon Harper's full appendices and bibliography / Gordon Clinton Harper ; with assistance from Gordon Richard & Monte Akers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harper, Gordon Clinton, 1939-2009, author.

Richard, Gordon, author.

Akers, Monte, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876--Bibliography.

Custer, George A.

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

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3698 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia ; Oxford : Casemate, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gordon Harper's remarkable book, Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer's Last Stand (Casemate Publishing, 2014) was conceived, researched, compiled, and written over a fifty-year period. After becoming fascinated with the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Gordie (as he was known) discovered that many of the stories, secondary publications, and accounts of the battle were based on erroneous information. Gordie's stated goal in writing the book was to compile all of the primary sources related to the battle and campaign-letters, reports, interviews, testimony, dia

Contents:

""FRONT COVER""; ""TITLE PAGE""; ""COPYRIGHT PAGE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""DEDICATION""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""APPENDICES""; ""CAMPAIGN ORDERS""; ""1.1 THE ORDER FOR THE RENO SCOUT""; ""1.2 THE ORDER ESTABLISHING THE COMMAND STRUCTURE OF THE DAKOTA COLUMN""; ""1.3 THE ORDER TO CUSTER TO MOVE THE 7TH CAVALRY TO THE ROSEBUD""; ""1.4 THE LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL CUSTER ISSUED BY GENERAL TERRY ON JUNE 22, 1876""; ""CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENCE""; ""2.1 FREDERICK WILLIAM BENTEEN: A LETTER TO HIS WIFE, JULY 4, 1876""

""2.2 FREDERICK BENTEEN: A LETTER TO HIS WIFE, WRITTEN IN DATED INSTALLMENTS, COMMENCING JULY 2, 1876""""2.3 JAMES H. BRADLEY: A LETTER TO THE HELENA HERALD, PUBLISHED JULY 25, 1876""; ""2.4 WALTER CAMP AND THE KANIPE LETTERS""; ""2.5 WALTER MASON CAMP: A LETTER TO CHARLES A. WOODRUFF, FEBRUARY 28, 1910""; ""2.6 FIRST LIEUTENANT JOHN CARLAND, 6TH INFANTRY: A LETTER TO ELIZABETH CUSTER, DECEMBER 4, 1877""; ""2.7 ARMSTRONG CUSTER: LETTERS TO HIS WIFE FROM THE 1876 YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION, WITH ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE FROM HIS WIFE AND OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY""

""2.8 ARMSTRONG CUSTER: AN ATTRIBUTED ANONYMOUS LETTER TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, DATED JUNE 22, 1876""""2.9 DR. JAMES DEWOLF: A LETTER TO HIS WIFE, JUNE 21, 1876""; ""2.10 WINFIELD SCOTT EDGERLY: A LETTER TO HIS WIFE, JULY 4, 1876""; ""2.11 THOMAS FRENCH: A LETTER TO THE MOTHER OF WILLIAM W. COOKE, JUNE 16, 1880""; ""2.12 FRED GERARD: A LETTER TO HIS DAUGHTERS, JULY 5, 1876""; ""2.13 JOHN GIBBON: LETTER TO CAPTAIN D. W. BENHAM, JUNE 28, 1876; AND FROM BENHAM TO DIVISION HEADQUARTERS IN CHICAGO, JULY 5, 1876""; ""2.14 FRANCIS M. GIBSON: A LETTER TO HIS WIFE, JULY 4, 1876""

""2.15 EDWARD GODFREY: A LETTER COMMENTING UPON SOME ACTIONS OF LUTHER HARE AT THE LITTLE HORN""""2.16 LUTHER HARE: A LETTER TO AN UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT, JUNE 11, 1929""; ""2.17 MARK KELLOGG: LETTERS OF JUNE 21, 1876""; ""2.18 SERGEANT RILEY LANE, 7TH INFANTRY: A LETTER TO HIS BROTHER, JULY 3, 1876""; ""2.19 JESSE M. LEE: A LETTER TO ELIZABETH CUSTER, JUNE 27, 1897""; ""2.20 DR. HOLMES O. PAULDING: EXCERPTS FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE OF 1876""; ""2.21 ROBERT NEWTON PRICE: A LETTER TO THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, MARCH 1879, PUBLISHED MARCH 13, 1879""

""2.22 AUTIE REED: A LETTER TO HIS PARENTS, JUNE 21, 1876""""2.23 MARCUS RENO: A LETTER TO T. L. ROSSER, JULY 30, 1876""; ""2.24 THOMAS L. ROSSER: A LETTER TO THE ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS AND MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE, JULY 8, 1876""; ""2.25 THOMAS ROSSER: A LETTER TO MARCUS RENO, AUGUST 16, 1876""; ""2.26 GENERAL TERRY: THE LETTER TO GENERAL CROOK JULY 9, 1876, NOTIFYING CROOK OF TERRY�S CAMPAIGN PROGRESS AND OF CUSTER�S DISASTER ON THE LITTLE HORN""; ""2.27 GENERAL ALFRED H. TERRY: A LETTER TO GENERAL SHERMAN REGARDING HIS DISPATCH FROM THE LITTLE HORN BATTLEFIELD, DECEMBER 9, 1876""

""2.28 CHARLES VARNUM: A LETTER TO HIS PARENTS, FROM THE LOWELL WEEKLY JOURNAL, AUGUST 1876""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781612002804

1612002803

OCLC:

885123645