This is the first full history of the most famous battleground in the West, the Little Bighorn. After re-sketching the dramatic events of the summer of the 1876 Sioux War, Jerome A. Greene turns to Gen. Phil Sheridan’s efforts to protect the battlefield by 1879. A former park service historian, Greene elaborates on the controversies of recent years that


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