Awards

• Winner of Bookseller's Association Author of the Year Award 2002.
• Winner of Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Book Award 2002
• Winner of Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award 2002

Overview

The classic account of Custer\'s Last Stand that shattered the myth of the Little Bighorn and rewrote history books. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side of Custer\'s fabled attack, poignantly revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the ""victors,"" the last great gathering of Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull.

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Killing Custer is the remarkable story of a series of shameful episodes... a moving and well-researched book. The Times ...evocatively and compellingly written. New Statesman With historical sophistication and literary skill, Welch recounts the story of Custer's defeat and the events that preceded and followed it... The Times Literary Supplement

"""The Great Spirit must have created James Welch so that he could tell of the Little Bighorn from the viewpoint of the tribes that fought there."" -- Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"

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At the time of his death in 2003, James Welch was considered one of the most important authors of the American West. His books include Fool’s Crow and Winter in the Blood.

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