Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1 The Custer Fight in Brief 1
Chapter 2 A Trooper's Account of the Battle 35
Chapter 3 Capt. Benteen's Own Story of the Custer Fight 67
Chapter 4 With Col. Chas. A. Varnum at the Little Big Horn 93
Chapter 5 A Thrilling Escape - De Rudio and O'Neill 125
Chapter 6 Was Major Marcus A. Reno a Coward in the Custer Fight? 153
Chapter 7 The Story of Trumpeter Martin 183
Chapter 8 Sibley and the Sioux 193
Chapter 9 Theodore W. Goldin's Experience in the Custer Battle Water Detail 219
Chapter 10 Two Modest Heroes of the Custer Expedition 233
Chapter 11 Was There a Custer Survivor? 243
Chapter 12 A Great Newspaper "Scoop" 251
Chapter 13 How the Custer Battlefield was Discovered 255
Chapter 14 Medal of Honor Heroes in Custer's Last Fight 261
Chapter 15 The Story of "Comanche," Sole Survivor of the Custer Fight 269
Chapter 16 The Famous Brisbin Letter Sheds New Light on the Custer Mystery 275
Chapter 17 Were Custer's Remains Ever Positively Identified? 287
Chapter 18 Private George Berry's Experience in the Custer Campaign of 1876 291
Chapter 19 Charley Reynolds, Custer's Chief of Scouts 305
Chapter 20 The Kidder Massacre of 1867 in Custer's Regime 323
Chapter 21 Treatment of Red Men-Gen. John Gibbon's Opinion 333
Acknowledgements 341
Index 344