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Book: The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Quotes of Book: The Last Stand: Custer,
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  1. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    By the 1770s, the Teton Sioux had overrun the Arikara, or Ree, on the Missouri River and made it as far west as the Black Hills, where they quickly ousted the Kiowa and the Crows. Over the next hundred years the Sioux continued to expand their territory, eventually forcing the Crows to retreat all the way to the Bighorn River more than two hundred miles to the west, while also carrying on raids to the north and south against the Assiniboine, Shoshone, Pawnee, Gros Ventre, and Omaha.
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  2. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    Custer did not drink; he didn't have to. His emotional effusions unhinged his judgment in ways that went far beyond alcohol's ability to interfere with clear thinking.
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  3. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    I've always known that I had the happy facility of making enemies of any one I ever knew,
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  4. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    Soon after, Tom, all of twenty years old, became the only soldier in the Civil War to win two Medals of Honor. In"
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  5. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    If half of the two thousand warriors fired ten arrows each during the engagement, that would have been a total of ten thousand arrows,
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  6. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    Hindsight has a way of corrupting people's memories, inviting them to view a past event not as it actually occurred but as they wished it had occurred given the ultimate result.
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  7. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    When an enlisted man sees his commanding officer lose his head entirely…," Private Taylor wrote, "it would…demoralize anyone taught to breathe, almost, at the word of command.
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  8. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    a space of time is a great breeder of myths.
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  9. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    Over the next hundred years, more gold would be extracted from a single mine in the Black Hills {an estimated $1 billion} than from any other mine in the continental United States.
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  10. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    The future is never more important than to a people on the verge of a cataclysm.
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  11. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
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  12. Nathaniel Philbrick _ The Last Stand: Custer,

    Custer wrote, "I often think I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people adhered to the free open plains rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation, there to be the recipient of the blessed benefits of civilization, with its vices thrown in without stint or measure.
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