Summary: Using journals, oral histories, and drawings, this program tells the story of the famous battle, including the perspectives of the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Crow.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Video 2004

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LAS

Philbrick, Nathaniel.

Summary: The bestselling author of "Mayflower" sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West, reminding readers that the Battle of the Little Bighorn was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 PHI

Marcovitz, Hal.

Summary: The life of the Civil War general whose controversial fame rests chiefly on the disaster at the Little Big Horn in 1876.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CUS

Utley, Robert Marshall

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 UTL

Frost, Lawrence A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bonanza Books 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 FRO

Custer, Elizabeth B.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Corner House 9730

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUSTER, ELIZABETH BACON CUS

Blake, Michael

Summary: In his New York Times bestselling novel Dances with Wolves, Michael Blake created an unforgettable saga of white and Native American cultures. Now in Marching to Valhalla, Blake unfolds the story of the final months of General George Armstrong Custer, a story that illuminates the epic sweep of his entire life--his career, his passions, his legacy to the American west. Here is Custer as we've...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLA

Nelson, S. D.

Summary: "In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. Atthe height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time. In this action-packed double biography, S....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NEL

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NEL

Stiles, T. J.

Summary: A new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. Historian T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person--capable yet insecure, intelligent...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUSTER, GEORGE STI

Russell, Sheldon

Summary: "In the American West, as the nation heals from the Civil War that nearly destroyed it, new battle lines are being drawn. Caleb Justin, orphaned and grieving, and his comrade Joshua Hart, a tough, worldly runaway, leave their home along the Ohio River bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, intent to join Sheridan's troops in their pursuit of Indian lands. But a badly healed foot injury ends...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cennan Books, an imprint of Cynren Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

Sklenar, Larry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 SKL

Marshall, Joseph

Summary: An account of the legendary battle, told from a Lakota perspective, documents key Lakota oral traditions to reveal the nuanced complexities that led up to and followed the conflict.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 MAR

Philbrick, Nathaniel.

Summary: Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations. The author sketches in details about the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, and George Armstrong Custer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.82 PHI

Philbrick, Nathaniel.

Summary: Philbrick carries readers back to the 1876 battle in Montana mythologized as "Custer's Last Stand." Focusing on the charismatic Sitting Bull and the recklessly brave George Armstrong Custer, Philbrick constructs a narrative of the battle that became the archetypal story of the West.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 973.8 PHI

McMurtry, Larry.

Summary: "Pulitzer Prize Winner Larry McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century. From graduating last in his class at West Point to leading the ill-fated 7th cavalry in the attack at the Littel Bighorn, Custer forged a legacy-- still very much alive today-- as one of the West's most enduring hisstorical figures" -- from publisher's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.82 CUSTER, GEORGE A MCM

Coel, Margaret

Summary: When Colin Morningside, a descendant of Crazy Horse, is accused of murdering a General Custer impersonator, Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden must find the truth, which leads them into a deadly conspiracy that neither of them could have foreseen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY COE

Simmons, Dan.

Summary: Haunted by Custer's ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy--on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the Jefferson face.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIM

Urwin, Gregory J. W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 URW

Mort, T. A. (Terry A.)

Summary: In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some 1000 troops and more than one hundred wagons into the Black Hills of South Dakota. This fascinating work of narrative history tells the little-known story of this exploratory mission and reveals how it set the stage for the climactic Battle of the Little Bighorn two years later. What is the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 MOR

Crocker, H. W.

Summary: "What if George Armstrong Custer didn't die at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? What if "Custer's Last Stand" was actually just the beginning of a wild, gritty, Western adventure? In this vivid alternate history, George Armstrong Custer--the ruthless ex-Civil War general and cavalry commander--secretly survives the bloody Battle of the Little Bighorn and becomes a gun for hire in the West....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Crocker 2018

Schopieray, Julie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Julie Schopieray 2009

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.46 SCH

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 SCH
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.46 SCH

Summary: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which wants the land Custer gave to the Indians.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THE

McMurtry, Larry.

Summary: In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 CUSTER, GEORGE A MCM

Taylor, William O.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 TAY