An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

448. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Horse-Lords of the Plains (Part 3)

May 08, 2024

Description

Of all the great characters entangled in the story of George A. Custer and the American Indian Wars, few are as captivating as Crazy Horse. A mighty warrior of the Lakota Sioux, and a tremendous...
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Books Referenced

Ernest and the Wild West

Author: Unknown

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Mentioned as a children's book the speaker remembers from growing up in the 1970s, when discussing how cowboy and Indian films and books portrayed Native Americans

Custer's Last Stand (Ladybird Book)

Author: Frank Humphris

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Referenced as a Ladybird children's book the speaker remembers, part of the discussion about 1970s depictions of Native Americans in children's media

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Author: Dee Brown

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Mentioned when discussing attempts to reframe the history of the American West from the Native American perspective, describing 'how the West was won as being how the West was lost'

The Earth is Weeping

Author: Peter Cozzens

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Explicitly cited as a book that brilliantly explains how none of the Plains tribes were native to the lands they claimed, emphasizing that the wars represented 'a clash of emigrant peoples'

The Sioux: The Dakota and Lakota Nations

Author: Guy Gibbon

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Described as having 'wrote a brilliant history of the Sioux,' quoted discussing how the Sioux eagle feather headdress became the universal symbol of 'Indianness'

My Life on the Plains

Author: George Armstrong Custer

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Referenced when discussing Custer's belief that Native Americans were Israelites, noting that he wrote about this theory in the beginning of this book