The Fights on the Little Horn Companion: Gordon Harper's Full Appendices and BibliographyA treasury of sources and supplemental information for readers of the award-winning history The Fights on the Little Horn. This volume collects and lists books, booklets, pamphlets, manuscripts, personal and family papers, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, correspondence, interviews, military and historical journals, military and government reports, and more used by Gordon Harper, author of The Fights on the Little Horn, in his extraordinary years-long research into Custer’s Last Stand. As a companion volume to that book, or a resource for anyone interested in the history of the American West, it is a valuable and comprehensive guide. |
Contents
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
BIOGRAPHICAL OR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL | |
B3 BOOKS DEALING WITH THE HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY | |
B4 BOOKS BOOKLETS | |
B6 MAPS PUBLISHED AND OTHER | |
B8 OFFICIAL MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT REPORTS RECORDS | |
B9 TECHNICAL OR SEMITECHNICAL STUDIES SOURCES | |
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