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WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO AMERICAN HISTORY

This series provides essential and authoritative overviews of the scholarship that has shaped our present understanding of the American past. Edited by eminent historians, each volume tackles one of the major periods or themes of American history, with individual topics authored by key scholars who have spent considerable time in research on the questions and controversies that have sparked debate in their field of interest. The volumes are accessible for the non-specialist, while also engaging scholars seeking a reference to the historiography or future concerns.

A Companion to the American Revolution
Edited by Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole

A Companion to 19th-Century America
Edited by William L. Barney

A Companion to the American South
Edited by John B. Boles

A Companion to American Women’s History
Edited by Nancy Hewitt

A Companion to American Indian History
Edited by Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury

A Companion to Post-1945 America
Edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig

A Companion to the Vietnam War
Edited by Marilyn Young and Robert Buzzanco

A Companion to Colonial America
Edited by Daniel Vickers

A Companion to American Foreign Relations
Edited by Robert Schulzinger

A Companion to 20th-Century America
Edited by Stephen J. Whitfield

A Companion to the American West
Edited by William Deverell

A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction
Edited by Lacy K. Ford

A Companion to American Technology
Edited by Carroll Pursell

A Companion to African-American History
Edited by Alton Hornsby

A Companion to American Immigration
Edited by Reed Ueda

A Companion to American Cultural History
Edited by Karen Halttunen

A Companion to California History
Edited by William Deverell and David Igler

A Companion to American Military History
Edited by James Bradford

A Companion to Los Angeles
Edited by William Deverell and Greg Hise

A Companion to American Environmental History
Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman

A Companion to Benjamin Franklin
Edited by David Waldstreicher

A Companion to World War Two (2 volumes)
Edited by Thomas W. Zeiler with Daniel M. DuBois

A Companion to American Legal History
Edited by Sally E. Hadden and Alfred L. Brophy

A Companion to American Sports History
Edited by Steven Riess

A Companion to the U.S. Civil War (2 volumes)
Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean

A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, 1918
Edited by Edward G. Lengel

A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign
Edited by Brad D. Lookingbill

WILEY BLACKWELL PRESIDENTIAL COMPANIONS

A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt
Edited by William Pederson

A Companion to Richard M. Nixon

Edited by Melvin Small

A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt
Edited by Serge Ricard

A Companion to Thomas Jefferson
Edited by Francis D. Cogliano

A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson
Edited by Mitchell Lerner

A Companion to George Washington
Edited by Edward G. Lengel

A Companion to Andrew Jackson
Edited by Sean Patrick Adams

A Companion to Woodrow Wilson
Edited by Ross A. Kennedy

A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Edited by David Waldstreicher

A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe
Edited by Stuart Leibiger

A Companion to Harry S. Truman
Edited by Daniel S. Margolies

A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents, 1837–61
Edited by Joel Silbey

A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865–1881
Edited by Edward O. Frantz

A Companion to John F. Kennedy
Edited by Marc J. Selverstone

A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover
Edited by Katherine A. S. Sibley

A Companion to Ronald Reagan
Edited by Andrew L. Johns

A COMPANION TO CUSTER AND THE LITTLE BIGHORN CAMPAIGN

Edited by

Brad D. Lookingbill

 

 

 

 

 

 

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List of Illustrations

Between Parts IV and V
Figure 1 Major General George Armstrong Custer, 1865. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Figure 2 Sitting Bull, 1884. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Figure 3 Victim of Indians, 1869–1878. Record Group 57: Records of the US Geological Survey, 1839–2008, National Archives.
Figure 4 Map of the Great Sioux War, from Cavalier in Buckskin, by Robert M. Utley. Copyright 1988 University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced with permission.
Figure 5 Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881. Manuscript 2367-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH-2367A_08569200).
Figure 6 Otto Becker, Custer’s Last Fight, 1896, chromolithograph based on Cassilly Adams’s painting. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming.
Figure 7 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, 1898. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. James Wojtowicz Collection, MS327.OS2.07.001.
Figure 8 Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior.
In Chapter 24
Figure 9  Relative frequency word trends for the most frequent words in the entire corpus, when compared to the rest of the corpus. Visualization generated by Voyant Tools.
Figure 10 Distinctive words are computed based on their raw frequency and unique appearance in each of the texts. Visualization generated by Voyant Tools.