Mari Sandoz\'s account of the Battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life--and lost--reveals on every page the author\'s intimate knowledge of her subject.
The background of the tragedy is here:.
The character of the Sioux, the personality of Custer, the mixed emotions of Custer\'s men, the Plains landscape--all emerge with such clarity that the reader is transported in time to that spring of 1876, when the Army of the Plains began its fateful march toward the Yellowstone.
Mari Sandoz\'s account of the Battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life--and lost--reveals on every page the author\'s intimate knowledge of her subject