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Crazy Horse and Custer, The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors  •  Stephen Ambrose
HISTORY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 483 PAGES
Renowned historian Stephen Ambrose offers up another chapter in the story of America in this portrait of two powerful men. He parallels the life of Crazy Horse, the great leader of the Oglala Sioux, with that of General George Armstrong Custer, the man he defeated at the battle of Little Bighorn. It is a balanced, highly readable account, that serves to shed light on the similarities between these antagonistic men. (USW136, $17.00)		   Crazy Horse and Custer, The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined  •  Richard Allan Fox, Jr.
HISTORY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 412 PAGES
A remarkably detailed, dramatic reconstruction of the Battle of Little Big Horn June 25, 1876, as drawn from the most recent archaeological evidence, and historical documents, including accounts by Indian participants. Fox effectively demolished the myth of Custer's Last Stand. (RKY62, $24.95)		   Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined
Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows  •  Plenty-Coups  •  Frank B. Linderman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2002 •  PAPER  • 194 PAGES
The reflections of Chief Plenty Coups, leader of the Crow Indians. Recorded in the 1930s by Frank B. Linderman when Plenty Coups was an old man, they are an important Native American perspective on the struggles over land claims in the West. Plenty Coup's home in Pryor, Montana is now a state park. (RKY63, $19.95)		  
Custer, Cavalier in Buckskin  •  Robert Utley
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2001 •  PAPER  • 176 PAGES
This brief biography of General George Armstrong Custer -- written by the chief historian of the National Park Service -- includes a good selection of archival illustrations and photographs. (RKY64, $29.95)		  
Frontier Regulars, The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891  •  Robert Utley
HISTORY •  1984 •  PAPER  • 462 PAGES
A vivid history of the battles for supremacy and control in the American West between the United States Army and the American Indians. (USW434, $29.95)		   Frontier Regulars, The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891



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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, An Indian History of the American West  •  Dee Brown   • HISTORY  •  An unsettling history of the violent conquest of the Native Americans of the West, from 1860-1890, as told by members of the tribes themselves. Thirtieth-anniversary edition. (USW288, $17.00)
 		  
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Montana, High, Wide, and Handsome  •  Joseph Kinsey Howard  •  William Kittredge  •  Alfred Guthrie   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A classic history, first published in 1943, this delightful book is a spirited, appreciative testimony to the great prairie, its indigenous peoples, geography, climate, turf battles, economy and environment by an early newspaperman. (USW50, $16.95)
 		  
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The World of the Crow Indians, As Driftwood Lodges  •  Rodney Frey   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An introduction to the culture of the Crow Indians. (USP16, $19.95)
 		  
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