A review by stevenk
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick

4.0

A very well written and informative history of the men involved in the Battle of Little Bighorn. This book was full of details concerning the lives of Custer, Sitting Bull as well as their families and the other officers and men there that day. I found the story of the other companies of the 7th Cavalry that were at the Battle but weren't with Custer as interesting as the famous last stand. Philbrick's inclusion of the part played by Captain Grant Marsh and his Missouri riverboat the Far West in the story was interesting and reminded me that his forte so far has been nautical history.