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Book The Treasure of Little Bighorn

Download or read book The Treasure of Little Bighorn written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1876 Captain Grant Marsh was piloting the riverboat “Far West” up the Bighorn River, to bring Colonel George Armstrong Custer supplies and ammunition. But when he heard of the massacre that occurred at the Little Bighorn, his mission became one of rescue. In order to take on wounded soldiers as passengers, Marsh had to bury $375,000 in gold bars that he was carrying for miners somewhere along the shorelines of the Bighorn River. A friend of Clint Adams’ decides to search for that treasure and asks for his help. Of course, there are others searching for it as well, and Clint has to keep himself and his friend alive long enough to hopefully find the gold.

Book Little Bighorn Remembered

Download or read book Little Bighorn Remembered written by Herman J. Viola and published by Crown. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of June 25, 1876, soldiers of the elite U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer attacked a large Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. By day's end, Custer and more than two hundred of his men lay dead. It was a shocking defeat--or magnificent victory, depending on your point of view--and more than a century later it is still the object of controversy, debate, and fascination. What really happened on that fateful day? Now, thanks to the work of Herman J. Viola, Curator Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, we are much closer to answering that question. Dr. Viola, a leader in the preservation of Native American culture and history, has collected here dozens of dramatic, never-before-published accounts by Indians who participated in the battle--accounts that have been handed down to the present day, often secretly and accompanied by oaths of silence, from one generation to the next. These remarkable eyewitness recollections provide a direct link to that day's events; together they constitute an unprecedented oral history of the battle from the Native American point of view and the most comprehensive eyewitness description of Little Bighorn we have ever had. Here are the dramatic stories of the Cheyenne and Lakota warriors who rode into battle against Custer, the yellow-haired Son of the Morning Star, an adversary whose valor they admired--but who became a mortal enemy after breaking his peace-pipe oath, a scene described vividly in these pages. Here in their own words are the stories of the Crow scouts, allies of Custer, who advised against attacking Sitting Bull's village on the Little Bighorn. Hereare tales of valor told by the Arikara scouts who fought side by side with Custer's men against the Lakota and Cheyenne; although the Great Father in Washington rewarded their heroism with silence, it is celebrated to this day in tribal stories and songs that come to us from beyond the grave with hair-raising immediacy and power. Lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred maps, photographs, reproductions, and drawings, this remarkable book also includes: An account of the battle, including startling descriptions of Custer's conduct, collected from the Crow scouts by the famed photographer Edward S. Curtis in 1908. Curtis never published this report--President Theodore Roosevelt advised him not to--and it remained a secret until his ninety-year-old son recently gave the material to the Smithsonian. New archaeological evidence from the battlefield that casts fresh light on the Seventh Cavalry's movements, along with discoveries from the site of Sitting Bull's village--including the complete skeleton of a cavalry horse with its rider's well- preserved saddlebags and personal items. A series of illustrations made soon after the battle by Red Horse, a remarkable tableau that is reproduced here in its entirety for the first time. Three letters written by Lieutenant William Van Wyck Reily just days before he died at Little Bighorn that provide key and potentially controversial insights into the conduct of the cavalry under Custer's command. In short, this landmark book takes us much closer to knowing what really happened on that June day in 1876 when Custer died and a legend was born.

Book The Lost Treasures of Montana

Download or read book The Lost Treasures of Montana written by Peter Netzel and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LOST TREASURES OF MONTANA - Custer Country, FULL COLOR version:The Lost Treasures of Montana is a series of books on the lost treasures that can be found in Montana, by region. The series is based on over a decade of researching old treasure legends. This full-color version of the book contains details of locations of buried caches and lost treasures in Custer Country, Montana.Counties covered in this edition of The Lost Treasures of Montana: CUSTER COUNTRY, are: Big Horn, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Rosebud, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone counties. CUSTER COUNTRY also includes the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. In the Lost Treasures of Montana series, you will even find a few lost treasures never before presented in books! Stories of likely locations of hidden treasure covered in this book are: Horse Thief Cache, Pompey's Pillar Caches, Cache Creek, Soldiers' Treasure, Bighorn's Lost Cabin Mine, and Pryor Mountain Gold. Background and details are given for finding buried loot and other outlaw caches in stories like: Billings Questions, Big Nose George Parrott, Point of Rocks, Klan Butte, Could There Be More, and The Far West.The stories take you back to the time of the Wild West; you will meet the colorful outlaw characters who stole the loot and how they did it. Most of the stories also include maps, in case you wish to search for hidden treasure yourself!

Book The Fights on the Little Horn Companion

Download or read book The Fights on the Little Horn Companion written by Gordon Harper and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 2558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of sources and supplemental information for readers of the award-winning history The Fights on the Little Horn. This volume collects and lists books, booklets, pamphlets, manuscripts, personal and family papers, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, correspondence, interviews, military and historical journals, military and government reports, and more used by Gordon Harper, author of The Fights on the Little Horn, in his extraordinary years-long research into Custer’s Last Stand. As a companion volume to that book, or a resource for anyone interested in the history of the American West, it is a valuable and comprehensive guide.

Book A Terrible Glory

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Donovan
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2008-03-24
  • ISBN : 9780316029117
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book A Terrible Glory written by James Donovan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-03-24 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public uproar, and those in positions of power promptly began to point fingers in order to avoid responsibility. Custer, who was conveniently dead, took the brunt of the blame. The truth, however, was far more complex. A TERRIBLE GLORY is the first book to relate the entire story of this endlessly fascinating battle, and the first to call upon all the significant research and findings of the past twenty-five years--which have changed significantly how this controversial event is perceived. Furthermore, it is the first book to bring to light the details of the U.S. Army cover-up--and unravel one of the greatest mysteries in U.S. military history. Scrupulously researched, A TERRIBLE GLORY will stand as ta landmark work. Brimming with authentic detail and an unforgettable cast of characters--from Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse to Ulysses Grant and Custer himself--this is history with the sweep of a great novel.

Book Where Custer Fell

    Book Details:
  • Author : James S. Brust
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2007-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780806138343
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Where Custer Fell written by James S. Brust and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical and contemporary photographs accompany a narrative reflection on Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's "Last Stand" at the Battle of Little Bighorn, which includes personal accounts of battle veterans.

Book The Lost Treasues of Montana

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  • Author : Peter Netzel
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-01-26
  • ISBN : 9781542593861
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book The Lost Treasues of Montana written by Peter Netzel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LOST TREASURES OF MONTANA - Custer Country, BLACK & WHITE version: The Lost Treasures of Montana is a series of books on the lost treasures that can be found in Montana, by region. The series is based on over a decade of researching old treasure legends. This black and white version of the book contains details of locations of buried caches and lost treasures in Custer Country, Montana. Counties covered in this edition of The Lost Treasures of Montana: CUSTER COUNTRY, are: Big Horn, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Powder River, Prairie, Rosebud, Treasure, Wibaux, and Yellowstone counties. CUSTER COUNTRY also includes the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. In the Lost Treasures of Montana series, you will even find a few lost treasures never before presented in books! Stories of likely locations of hidden treasure covered in this book are: Horse Thief Cache, Pompey's Pillar Caches, Cache Creek, Soldiers' Treasure, Bighorn's Lost Cabin Mine, and Pryor Mountain Gold. Background and details are given for finding buried loot and other outlaw caches in stories like: Billings Questions, Big Nose George Parrott, Point of Rocks, Klan Butte, Could There Be More, and The Far West. The stories take you back to the time of the Wild West; you will meet the colorful outlaw characters who stole the loot and how they did it. Most of the stories also include maps, in case you wish to search for hidden treasure yourself!

Book Custer  the Seventh Cavalry  and the Little Big Horn

Download or read book Custer the Seventh Cavalry and the Little Big Horn written by Mike O'Keefe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalry’s disastrous defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battle—and with Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer—has never ceased. Widespread interest in the subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases with time. This two-volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever assembled. Drawing on years of research, Michael O’Keefe has compiled entries for roughly 3,000 books and 7,000 articles and pamphlets. Covering both nonfiction and fiction (but not juvenile literature), the bibliography focuses on events beginning with Custer’s tenure at West Point during the 1850s and ending with the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Included within this span are Custer’s experiences in the Civil War and in Texas, the 1873 Yellowstone and 1874 Black Hills expeditions, the Great Sioux War of 1876–77, and the Seventh Cavalry’s pursuit of the Nez Perces in 1877. The literature on Custer, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and the Seventh Cavalry touches the entire American saga of exploration, conflict, and settlement in the West, including virtually all Plains Indian tribes, the frontier army, railroading, mining, and trading. Hence this bibliography will be a valuable resource for a broad audience of historians, librarians, collectors, and Custer enthusiasts.

Book Crazy Horse and Custer

Download or read book Crazy Horse and Custer written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very early ages. Both were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie.

Book Stricken Field

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerome A. Greene
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780806137919
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Stricken Field written by Jerome A. Greene and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of America's most famous armed struggles, but the events surrounding Custer's defeat there in 1876 are only the beginning of the story. As park custodians, American Indians, and others have contested how the site should be preserved and interpreted for posterity, the Little Bighorn has turned into a battlefield in more ways than one. In Stricken Field, one of America's foremost military historians offers the first comprehensive history of the site and its administration in more than half a century. Jerome A. Greene has produced a compelling account of one of the West's most hallowed and controversial attractions, beginning with the battle itself and ending with the establishment of an American Indian memorial early in the twenty-first century. Chronicling successive efforts of the War Department and the National Park Service to oversee the site, Greene describes the principal issues that have confounded its managers, from battle observances and memorials to ongoing maintenance, visitor access, and public use. Stricken Field is a cautionary tale. Greene elucidates the conflict between the Park Service's dual mission to provide public access while preserving the integrity of a historical resource. He also traces the complex events surrounding the site, including Indian protests in the 1970s and 1980s that ultimately contributed to the 2003 dedication of a monument finally recognizing the Lakotas, Northern Cheyennes, and other American Indians who fought there.

Book For All to See

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sandra L. Brizée-Bowen
  • Publisher : Arthur H. Clark Company
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book For All to See written by Sandra L. Brizée-Bowen and published by Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates preserved recollections concerning the Battle of Little Bighorn by Plains Indians through pictographic drawings.

Book Shalako  Louis L Amour s Lost Treasures

Download or read book Shalako Louis L Amour s Lost Treasures written by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! He was a white man as cunning as any Indian, a brooding man who trusted in nothing but his weapon and his horse. Shalako was determined to cross the bleak Sonoran Desert—the Apaches’ killing ground—by himself. But then he came across a European hunting party, and a brave and beautiful woman, stranded and defenseless. Shalako knew that he had to stay and help them survive. For somewhere out there was a deadly Apache warrior . . . and he had the worst kind of death in mind for them all. Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, Beau L’Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L’Amour’s never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These exciting publications will be followed by Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volume 2. Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.

Book Son of the Morning Star

    Book Details:
  • Author : Evan S. Connell
  • Publisher : North Point Press
  • Release : 2011-04-01
  • ISBN : 0374708738
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Son of the Morning Star written by Evan S. Connell and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers," wrote what continues to be the most reliable--and compulsively readable--account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his meticulous research and novelist's eye for the story and detail to re-vreate the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.

Book Listverse com s Epic Book of Mind Boggling Lists

Download or read book Listverse com s Epic Book of Mind Boggling Lists written by Jamie Frater and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features lists that cover a broad range of subjects including bizarre births, weird jobs, crazy diets, strange phobias, historical oddities, religious scandals, ridiculous criminal acts, and weird superstitions.

Book Archaeology  History  and Custer s Last Battle

Download or read book Archaeology History and Custer s Last Battle written by Richard A. Fox and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer and his men bravely erected their heroic last stand. So goes the myth of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a myth perpetuated and reinforced for over 100 years. In truth, however, "Custer’s Last Stand" was neither the last of the fighting nor a stand. Using innovative and standard archaeological techniques, combined with historical documents and Indian eyewitness accounts, Richard Allan Fox, Jr. vividly replays this battle in astonishing detail. Through bullets, spent cartridges, and other material data, Fox identifies combat positions and tracks soldiers and Indians across the Battlefield. Guided by the history beneath our feet, and listening to the previously ignored Indian testimonies, Fox reveals scenes of panic and collapse and, ultimately, a story of the Custer battle quite different from the fatalistic versions of history. According to the author, the five companies of the Seventh Cavalry entered the fray in good order, following planned strategies and displaying tactical stability. It was the sudden disintegration of this cohesion that caused the troopers’ defeat. The end came quickly, unexpectedly, and largely amid terror and disarray. Archaeological evidences show that there was no determined fighting and little firearm resistance. The last soldiers to be killed had rushed from Custer Hill.

Book The Treasure Seeker s Treasury

Download or read book The Treasure Seeker s Treasury written by Roy Norvill and published by Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: