The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Description

Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel

Publisher: Viking

Pub Date: 2010 (First Edition)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.   There’s a couple of pages where the previous owner left a bookmark for a long period of time.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Good.  NOT price clipped.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Philbrick posits that there were really TWO Last Stands, one arising from the battle at the Little Bighorn, the second when an aggrieved nation made the collective decision to revenge Custer’s defeat by really going after the Plains Indians.  “The Last Stand” as a historical trope–from the Spartans at Thermopylae to Davy Crockett at the Alamo.   A signed Advance Proof of this title is also available.  See  https://joethebookguy.com/shop/signed-by-the-author/last-stand-custer-sitting-bull-battle-little-bighorn/