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Author:	Frederick J. Chiaventone	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster	ISBN-10:	0684830566
ISBN-13:	9780684830568	Subject:	--
Publication Year:	1996	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Good

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Synopsis
The author spent 20 years researching this novel, which tells the story of the Little Bighorn massacre, when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer attacked the Sioux with his Seventh Cavalry Regiment. The points of view of both sides are presented, as well as contemporary newspaper reportage, official Army documents, original diaries and letters, and reminiscences by various key figures, including Sitting Bull.
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Length:	333 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.8 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	23.2 oz.

Publisher's Note
As the sun rises on the barren hills of the Dakota Territory, there is nothing to distinguish this from any other hot summer day in the year of the nation's Centennial. In America's great cities, preparations are being made to celebrate a century of independence. But a thousand miles away, there are other Americans with little to celebrate. They are the dispossessed, Lakota Sioux, Cheyennes, and Arapahos. With the coming of summer, the first Americans have fled the reservation - the hated "white man's island" - in their thousands, following the vanishing buffalo and trying to put as much distance as they can between themselves and a civilization that threatens their very existence. But as they move deep into their traditional hunting grounds of the Dakota Territory, the Lakota Sioux and their friends are being pursued by a tenacious foe. George Armstrong Custer, the "Boy General" of Civil War fame, and his vaunted Seventh Cavalry are part of a three-pronged assault designed to trap the hostiles between them. Leading the advance is Lieutenant Charles Varnum, four years out of West Point and Custer's Chief of Indian Scouts. Puzzled by the growing fondness he feels for his Crow and Ree companions, and awed by Custer's nonchalance, Varnum worries about his own competence in the coming fight. Also in the ranks of the Seventh Cavalry is a man who is as confident of his own abilities as he is contemptuous of Custer's. Captain Frederick Benteen is a stalwart old cavalry officer and a bitter foe of the man the Lakota call "Long Hair". In the coming hours, Benteen will make a critical decision that may well change the course of American history. A few miles away and invisible to all but Varnum'sCrow and Ree scouts lies the largest encampment of hostile tribes in the history of North America. Unaware of Custer's approach, the camp luxuriates in the freedom of their old ways. But beneath its tranquil surface, the camp is a maelstrom of discontent. Gall, the veteran warrior and devoted family man, has begun to question the wisdom and motivations of Sitting Bull's belligerent opposition to the whites and worries about its consequences for the Lakota nation. Sitting Bull, the prophet and spiritual conscience of the Lakotas, is haunted by visions and tortured by self-doubt. And the enigmatic Crazy Horse, a fierce warrior and reluctant leader, grows ever more distant and morose. Torn by rival political factions and personal animosities, the Lakota Nation carries within it seeds of its own destruction. In a few short hours two cultures will clash on the sunbaked hills of Montana along the river known to the Lakotas as the Greasy Grass and to the whites as Little Bighorn. The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of the most famous and controversial events in American history. In A ROAD WE DO NOT KNOW, Frederick Chiaventone's deeply felt and vividly written first novel, the battle and its participants are presented with the narrative power that derives from profound understanding and extraordinary research. Also, Chiaventone is the first writer to give equal emphasis to the Seventh Cavalry and their Sioux opponents Combining the intensity of truth and historical fact with the dramatic range of fiction, this memorable novel takes us, along with Custer, Sitting Bull, Reno, Crazy Horse, Benteen, Gall, and the many other fighters on both sides, down A ROAD WE DO KNOW. Harold Coyle said in praise, "Before they were legends, they were men. Not since KILLER ANGELS has a writer taken us inside the hearts and souls of the men of both sides like Chiaventone does in this epic story. A rousing must read for all partisans of the American West." As the sun rises on the barren hills of the Dakota Territory, there is nothing to distinguish this from any other hot summer day in the year of the nation's Centennial. In America's great cities, preparations are being made to celebrate a century of independence. But a thousand miles away, there are other Americans with little to celebrate. They are the dispossessed, Lakota Sioux, Cheyennes, and Arapahos. With the coming of summer, the first Americans have fled the reservation--the hated "white man's island"--in their thousands, following the vanishing buffalo and trying to put as much distance as they can between themselves and a civilization that threatens their very existence. But as they move deep into their traditional hunting grounds of the Dakota Territory, the Lakota Sioux and their friends are being pursued by a tenacious foe. George Armstrong Custer, the "Boy General" of Civil War fame, and his vaunted Seventh Cavalry are part of a three-pronged assault designed to trap the hostiles between them. Leading the advance is Lieutenant Charles Varnum, four years out of West Point and Custer's Chief of Indian Scouts. Puzzled by the growing fondness he feels for his Crow and Ree companions, and awed by Custer's nonchalance, Varnum worries about his own competence in the coming fight. Also in the ranks of the Seventh Cavalry is a man who is as confident of his own abilities as he is contemptuous of Custer's. Captain Frederick Benteen is a stalwart old cavalry officer and a bitter foe of the man the Lakota call "Long Hair." In the coming hours, Benteen will make a critical decision that may well change the course of American history. A few miles away and invisible to all but Varnum's Crow and Ree scouts lies the largest encampment of hostile tribes in the history of North America. Unaware of Custer's approach, the camp luxuriates in the freedom of their old ways. But beneath its tranquil surface, the camp is a maelstrom of discontent. Gall, the veteran warrior and devoted family man, has begun to question the wisdom and motivations of Sitting Bull's belligerent opposition to the whites and worries about its consequences for the Lakota nation. Sitting Bull, the prophet and spiritual conscience of the Lakotas, is haunted by visions and tortured by self-doubt. And the enigmatic Crazy Horse, a fierce warrior and reluctant leader, grows ever more distant and morose. Tom by rival political factions and personal animosities, the Lakota Nation carries within it seeds of its own destruction. In a few short hours two cultures will clash on the sunbaked hills of Montana along the river known to the Lakotas as the Greasy Grass and to the whites as Little Bighorn.
Industry reviews
"An immensely effecting and affecting first novel from a retired U.S. Army officer....The episodic narrative brings the events of Sunday, June 25, 1876, to vivid life by providing a minute-by-minute account....[H]istorical fiction of a very high and consequential order." Brown

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A ROAD WE DO NOT KNOW: A Novel of Custer at Little Bighorn

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0684830566
Title : A ROAD WE DO NOT KNOW: A Novel of Custer at Little Bighorn
Authors : Frederick J. Chiaventone
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Publication Date : Sep 11 199
List Price (MSRP) : 24.00
Keywords : Little Bighorn, Battle of the,,Wars, 1876,Historical - General,American First Novelists,American Historical Fiction,Fiction - Historical,Wars,Fiction,Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876,Indians
Condition : Good

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