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A Good Day to Die
by Tom W. Blackburn / Paperback / Published 1996
Synopsis: "After the murder of Sitting Bull, the enigmatic new leader of the Plains Indians promises the tribe a return to the old buffalo days, setting the stage for an epic confrontation at Wounded Knee Creek. With the ever-growing domination of the encroaching white man, the Plains Indians were fighting desperately to preserve their lands, their sacred traditions, their very existence as a people. Here is an epic novel of the Plains Indians' last fight for freedom." Leisure Books; ISBN: 0843941103

A Good Day to Die
by Tom W. Blackburn / Paperback / Published 1996

It Is a Good Day to Die: Indian Eyewitnesses
Tell the Story of the Battle of Little Bighorn
by Herman J. Viola (Editor), Viola J. Herman / Hardcover / Published 1998
Crown Pub; ISBN: 0517709120, Reading level: Ages 9-12

It Is a Good Day to Die: Indian Eyewitnesses
Tell the Story of the Battle of Little Bighorn
by Herman J. Viola (Editor), Viola J. Herman / Library Binding / Published 1998
Crown Pub; ISBN: 0517709139

The Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign
And the Battle of the Little Bighorn
By Jerome A. Greene, Orin Grant Libby (Editor),
D'Arcy McNickle (Introduction)
/ Paperback / Published 1998
Reviews: "General George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn is well known through U.S. military sources and Lakota and Cheyenne narratives, but little has been heard from the Indians who fought beside Custer - the Arikara scouts. Now their eyewitness reports on Custer's campaigns from 1874 through 1876 are told in The Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the result of interviews with nine scouts by Orin G. Libby in 1912. Originally forty strong, the Arikaras scouted in advance of the U.S. Army for Custer and Reno, reporting enemy Indian movements and seeking to capture their horses. Their accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn reveal much about why Custer failed - indeed, the Arikaras went into battle believing the Sioux medicine was so strong that defeat was inevitable. This edition includes a new foreword by Jerome A. Greene, a preface by Dee Brown, and an introduction by D'Arcy McNickle." Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806130725

Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight
by Richard G. Hardorff (Editor), Robert Wooster (Introduction)
/ Paperback / Published 1998
"Synopsis: Only six Cheyenne Indians (but 32 Sioux) died in the fighting that wiped out the command of General George Custer. Brave Wolf was at the scene on that bloody Sunday in 1876. Brave Wolf and others of his tribe recall the courage of the doomed men in the Seventh Cavalry and give a firsthand account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. 10 photos. 3 maps." Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803273118

Custer and the Great Controversy:
The Origin and Development of a Legend
by Robert M. Utley, Brian W. Dippie (Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1998
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803295618

The Reno Court of Inquiry: Abstract of the Official
Record of Proceedings (The Custer Library)
by W. A. Graham, Brian C. Pohanka / Hardcover-Reprint / Published 1995
Stackpole Books; ISBN: 0811714160