The 1876 Yellowstone Expedition: Catastrophe at the Little Bighorn (Annotated)
Step onto the windswept Montana battlefield in the summer of 1876, when the fate of the frontier was written in blood.
Originally published in 1877, this rare firsthand account by General John Gibbon captures the immediate aftermath of one of the most infamous clashes in American history: the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Gibbon was not a distant historian-he arrived with General Alfred Terry's relief column just two days after Custer's 7th Cavalry was annihilated. What he found was a scene so grim and shocking that his vivid descriptions still chill readers nearly 150 years later.
In these pages, Gibbon recounts:
The tense days leading up to the expedition and the final time he saw George Armstrong Custer ride out at Rosebud Creek.
His haunting discovery of the battlefield strewn with fallen soldiers, a vision of horror almost beyond description.
The condition of Major Marcus Reno and the shattered survivors who had endured two desperate days of fighting.
Unlike later histories built on secondhand stories and speculation, Gibbon's papers deliver the raw voice of a Civil War veteran and direct witness to the grim realities of the frontier. His narrative remains one of the most authentic and riveting accounts of the Little Bighorn disaster ever recorded.
For readers passionate about the Old West, Custer, Native American history, or the ongoing debate about what really happened on that fateful June day, this is an indispensable addition to your bookshelf.
Discover the words of the man who saw it all-when the dust had barely settled and the echoes of gunfire still hung in the valley of the Little Bighorn.
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