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It should be noted that this national park is now called the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. “The long, tragic history of Indian warfare in the American West reached its climax with the defeat of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry in Montana’s valley of the Little Bighorn River on June 25, 1876. Although the Indians won the battle, they subsequently lost the war against the white man’s efforts to end their independent way of life. The story of the battle and its consequences is told in the following pages by Robert M. Utley in a compelling narrative of an event that has excited the imagination and provoked controversy every since it happened.” This is U.S. National Park Service Handbook 132, published in 1987. There are many sidebars of maps, photographs, and illustrations with informative text. Many – not all - of these sidebar texts are recorded at the end of the main text in each section. The author is a well regarded historian with 22 books to his credit who specializes in the American West. ( Book Preface and David Wales)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/custerbattlefiel88nati
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/War & Military; *Non-fiction/History /Modern (19th C)
Keywords that describe the book: Native Americans, montana, george armstrong custer, u.s. army, custer battlefield, custer's last stand, little bighorn, battle of the little bighorn, little bighorn battlefield national monumnet, american indian wars, plains indian wars, sioux tribe, sitting bull, crazy horse, 7th cavalry
============================================ - The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "Chapter [number] of Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
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"Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn, by Robert Marshall Utley. [Chapter]"
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"[Chapter title]"
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"End of Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn, by Robert Marshall Utley. "
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