An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
448. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Horse-Lords of the Plains (Part 3)
May 08, 2024
Description
Books Referenced
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
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
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'
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'
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'
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