Book Review: Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now

Authors

Herman J. Viola, Smithsonian Institution

Date of this Version

2006

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:4 (Fall 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

On the morning of June 25, 1876, soldiers of the famed U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by the flamboyant 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. More than a century later, the battle still remains a subject of controversy, debate, and fascination.