Greasy Grass : a story of the Little Big Horn / Johnny D. Boggs.
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- ISBN: 9781432827106 (hbk.) :
- ISBN: 1432827103 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: 266 p. ; 23 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Detroit : Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2013]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Genre: | Western stories. War stories. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Grand Forks and District Public Library.
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Grand Forks | W BOG (Text) | 35142002544871 | Western Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2013 December #2
*Starred Review* Amazingly, this is Boggs' third novel to appear in the last 12 months, and another is forthcoming. This time, he tackles one of the most famous and contentious battles in American history: the Little Big Horn. He approaches it as a mosaic, using some 47 points of view, from the famous, such as Crazy Horse and Custer's wife, Libbie, to such minor characters as an army trumpeter and a brash Indian teen trying to count coup. While George Armstrong Custer, or Long Hair, is featured in almost every vignette, the reader most often encounters the voice of Major Marcus Reno, the controversial commander who, separately from Custer, attacked the Indian village and found himself overmatched. Reno retreated into the woods, where he and his men made an every-man-for-himself scramble to link with Captain Frederick Bendeen atop Reno Hill. The ensuing accounts of Bendeen, Dr. Henry Porter (desperately trying to save wounded men crying out for water), and Sergeant Michael Madden, who joins the seemingly impossible run for water, form an almost unbearably intense narrative. Since a handful of Reno's soldiers survived, this secondary battle nicely brackets the major Indian victory (or massacre) in which Custer and his men perished. Boggs points out that while much has been deduced from battlefield evidence and Indian accounts, no one knows the exact sequence of events. Filling out the mosaic, Boggs tells several stories from both Indian and army perspectives. Sometimes the combat here seems more brutal than likely, but to say so is quibbling, because this is an enthralling book, right up there with two of Boggs' favorite Custer chronicles, Will Henry's No Survivors (1950) and Evan S. Connell's Son of the Morning Star (1984). Copyright 2013 Booklist Reviews. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2013 September #2
Countless books have been written about Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana in June 1876, and Spur Awardâwinner Boggs (Summer of the Star) adds yet another perspective to this famous Old West fight. Boggs's approach uses the fictionalized narratives of historical participants, and although not an original idea, he carries it off beautifully with vivid accounts from the 7th Cavalry soldiers and the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, as Custer foolishly leads his men to their deaths in a wild melee of crashing gunfire and arrows. The story tells of the U.S. Army's campaign to bring the Indians to battle, as well as Sioux chief Sitting Bull's premonition of the upcoming fight, and Red Cloud's frustration over the white man's broken promises and treaties. Through the characters' words, Boggs also reveals the bitter feelings, rivalries, and hatred between Custer and his seniors and subordinates, along with several soldiers who have a palpable sense of impending doom. The battle scenes are described in all their bloody savagery. The highlight is Boggs's portrayals of Capt. Frederick Benteen and Maj. Marcus Reno and their surviving cavalrymen during the battle, and the two officers' futile efforts to avoid blame afterward. This novel contains no new historical scholarship, but it does effectively paint a grim, gory, and realistic image of Indian warfare, period racism, and the political scapegoating that usually occurs after a military disaster. (Dec.)
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