1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn
Evan S. Connell
On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors – Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho – converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana’s Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry – 262 soldiers, com…