About a month ago,
my wife and I took a road trip with some good friends through many of the
Westerns states. We visited Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South
Dakota, and Nebraska. One of the highlights was a visit to the Little
Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
Every
time I visit a historic site, I end up buying at least one book about the
events that took place at the location. I wanted to buy only one book
about the battle because we had already visited so many sites that I was
weighing down the motorhome. The store at the National Monument had
dozens upon dozens of books on Custer, the battle, Crazy Horse, and Sitting
Bull. I spent some time going through them and ended up taking two to the
clerk for a recommendation. The two books were The Last Stand, Custer, Sitting Bull, and The Battle
of Little Bighorn, by Nathaniel Philbrick, and Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two
American Warriors, by Stephen E. Ambrose.