A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign

The Battle of Little Bighorn is an iconic conflict in the history of the American West.  A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign offers an authoritative and accessible overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of this seminal battle. The five sections of this companion outline Native American culture; the United States military presence in the Western territories; George Armstrong Custer; the military maneuvers of the Battle itself; and the Battle of Little Bighorn s cultural legacy.

Combining contributions from an array of respected scholars, A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign will be an essential guide to the history and historiography of this pivotal moment in American history.

Brad D. Lookingbill is Professor of History at Columbia College of Missouri. He is the author of The American Military: A Narrative History (Wiley, 2014) and War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners (2014), and is the editor of American Military History: A Documentary Reader (Wiley, 2010). Lookingbill has received several teaching awards, most recently the Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Historical Association in 2010. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Dr. Lookingbill served in the Army National Guard and Reserve.