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Article: Brust, James S., Pohanka, Brian C., Barnard, Sandy. Where Custer fell; photographs of the Little Bighorn battlefield then and now.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- September 1, 2007
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BRUST, James S., POHANKA, Brian C., BARNARD, Sandy. Where Custer fell; photographs of the Little Bighorn battlefield then and now. Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 226p. illus. notes, bibliog, index, c2005.0-8061-3834-3. $24.95. JSA *
This is a careful step-by-step recreation of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It is also a pictorial history of one aspect of American photography, since photographers have been combing this 1876 battlefield since 1877. It is also the result of an enormous amount of research and study by three dedicated historians. "Custer's Last Stand" has taken on a mythic quality in the lore of the American frontier. This text brings a blast of reality ...