Custer Myth

"I have collected here, and offer in this volume, a great many bits of now scarce source material, from which you, the reader, may construct a mosaic of your own, appraising the value and proper placement of each item, should you wish to write a story of Custer's Last Fight. It will probably be a better one than many heretofore written." From the Custer Myth

Firsthand sources in The Custer Myth include:

Narratives of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arikara, and CrowPhilo Clark's 1877 battlefield surveyStatements and letters by scouts and other nonmilitary participantsThe Benteen-Goldin letters"Custer's' Last Battle," the 1892 Century Magazine article by General Edward S. GodfreyGeneral Winfield Scott Edgerly's 1881 statement about the battleMilitary and literary records of Theodore W. Goldin