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Article: And now, late word from Little Bighorn
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 12, 1996
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WITH CUSTER ON THE LITTLE BIGHORN
A Newly Discovered
First-Person Account
By William O. Taylor
Viking, 207 pp., illustrated, $27.95
There are very few personal accounts of the great Sioux War of
1875-76 or any of the Western Indian campaigns, and there is next to
nothing by enlisted troops. Compared to the endless stream of Civil
War memoirs, the eyewitnesses to our own ethnic cleansing of the West
are as nothing, a few relics, scarce as arrowheads scattered in the
sagebrush.
By and large, our Western soldiers were illiterates, recent
immigrants, and not a few were drunkards, derelicts and drop-outs.
There were few of the educated enlisted men who volunteered for the
righteous cause ...