Item description for JOHN S. GRAY CUSTERS LAST CAMPAIGN MICH BOYER H/C

CUSTER'S LAST CAMPAIGN
Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn
Reconstructed
by
JOHN S. GRAY
Foreword by
ROBERT M. UTLEY
Published by University of Nebraska Press
This 446 page book, including Appendix and Index is in Very Good condition. Has name and date of former owner on inside. No other writing, torn, folded or missing pages. Cover boards are straight and clean, binding tight. Dust jacket show little to no wear.
Part one traces the life of Mitch Boyer, the mixed-blood scout who followed Custer into battle and died with him. Part two covers the two weeks during which Boyer served as Custer's key guide and scout. Numerous details of the last days, hours and seconds of the campaign as provided from primary sources. Using all the known primary accounts of the battle and employing topographic research in conjunction with time-motion analysis, Gray has produced, for the first time a coherent picture of those nebulous events. His methods exposes accounts that are blatantly impossible and illuminates the often undervalued interviews with Indian scouts. The resulting reconstruction of the battle is convincing, a unique work that will profoundly influence future conceptions of what happened that Sunday at the Litte Bighorn.