Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed on 8/6/2016 + 1568 more book reviews

More than a hundred years after the battle at the Little Big Horn, Evan S. Connell discusses the personalities, the strategies, and the foolishness of the participants. Connell has taken great pains to discover what was said at the time, and how people look back on that watershed event. He has even included campaign and battle maps of the Little Big Horn area.

From inside cover: It was a dangerous age. Reckless adventurers came to the West as though to the Promised Land, bur, as Evan S. Connell writes, they were disappointed.
The West did not provide what they needed. Make-believe fandangos, transvestite laundresses, hydrophobic wolves, ant-fights, crazed foreigners, pretty sunsets--this was not enough. The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when it was not dull, it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado.

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