The Story of the Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Fight (Expanded, Annotated)

By W.A. Graham

Book Overview

Lieutenant-Colonel William Alexander Graham ranks as one of the premier early researchers writing about the Little Bighorn disaster. We also have him to thank for the fact that the transcripts of the Reno Court of Inquiry still exist and the new material in this book tells you that history.Graham's unbiased original 1926 book is all here--still relevant, riveting, and part of the Custer history itself. For decades, Graham researched the battle and interviewed survivors. This book is one of three he completed about the battle.Graham was always noted for his balanced view of the event. He was less interested in whose fault it was than he was in what happened. His writing here is concise, clear, and tells the story as it should be told.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519041632
• ISBN13: 9781519041630
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 93 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Classic exposition on the Battle of the Little Big Horn

This is one of the classic books on the Little Big Horn fight. The author, W.A. Graham, was a retired Army lawyer who spent his retirement in the study of the 1876 Sioux Campaigns. Graham is almost unique within the tightly knit universe of Little Big Horn scholarship. His training and career as a lawyer made him attempt to be as objective as possible in his gathering and assessment of the evidence he presents. Graham indulges in little, if any, of the polemics and special pleading which seems to characterize much writing about Little Big Horn. For that reason alone, this volume is recommended highly. While somewhat dated by more recent scholarship (this is a reprint of the 1941 Second Edition) it is a "must have" in the library of anyone interested in this famous battle of the Plains Indian Wars.