A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever...

Lakota chief Crazy Horse and Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer had long been enemies when they finally crossed paths for the last time in 1876, as the people of the Great Plains resisted the invasion of their homes. Witness reports and reflections by their peers accompany side-by-side storytelling, revealing different perspectives on the historical events during their intertwined lives.

"Thomas Winslow finds himself in Custer's illfated campaign against the Indians, serving under his old bitter rival. Who will be left standing?"--Provided by publisher.

"When writing his book 'War-Path and Bivouac,' John Finerty rewrote his war-time narrative almost entirely, adding matter here and deleting or ignoring details there. Appearing here are the original detailed 1876 Sioux War dispatches to the Chicago Times newspaper, all judiciously introduced and annotated"--