Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed

Table of contents

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• Title Page ii
• Contents v
• Foreword ix
• Preface xiii
• A Note on Documentation xvii
• Part I The Mitch Boyer Story 1
• 1 Dakota Origins 3
• 2 Adventures on the North Platte 11
• 3 Roaming the Yellostone Valley 23
• 4 A Peace Treaty Brings War 35
• 5 Freighting to Fort C. F. Smith 49
• 6 Army Scout at Fort C. F. Smith 59
• 7 Red Cloud's War Winds Down 73
• 8 Adoption by the Crows 84
• 9 The Crows Survive a Removal Threat 97
• 10 The Crow Agency Moves Closer To the Sioux 113

• Title Page ii
• Contents v
• Foreword ix
• Preface xiii
• A Note on Documentation xvii
• Part I The Mitch Boyer Story 1
• 1 Dakota Origins 3
• 2 Adventures on the North Platte 11
• 3 Roaming the Yellostone Valley 23
• 4 A Peace Treaty Brings War 35
• 5 Freighting to Fort C. F. Smith 49
• 6 Army Scout at Fort C. F. Smith 59
• 7 Red Cloud's War Winds Down 73
• 8 Adoption by the Crows 84
• 9 The Crows Survive a Removal Threat 97
• 10 The Crow Agency Moves Closer To the Sioux 113
• 11 Mounting a War Against the Sioux 123
• 12 Guiding the Montana Column 135
• 13 Bradley Finds and Gibbon Loses the Sioux 150
• 14 The Gibbon-Terry Connection 164
• Part II - Custer's Last Campaign 179
• 15 Guiding the Reno Reconnaissance 181
• 16 Terry Sends Custer Up the Rosebud 198
• 17 To the Crow's Nest and the Divide 220
• 18 The Descent to the Lone Tepee 244
• 19 The Approach to the Little Bighorn 266
• 20 Reno's Fight and Retreat 287
• 21 Disorder on Reno Hill 308
• 22 Custer Moves Down the Right Bank 333
• 23 Custer's Maneuvering and Skirmishing 357
• 24 Curley's Escape 373
• 25 The Final Minutes 383
• Appendix A: Michael Boyer's Testimony On the Fetferman Massacre 401
• Appendix B: Evidence on Where Men Fell On the Custer Field 404
• Bibliography 415
• Index 431