The River and the Horsemen: A Novel of the Little Bighorn

The most compelling account of the Little Bighorn ever written, this powerfully detailed historical novel vividly recreates the lives of two of the most celebrated military leaders of nineteenth-century North America, General George Armstrong Custer and Chief Sitting Bull. Capturing in rich detail native Sioux spirituality and culture, as well as the history and politics of post-Civil War America, the Battle of the Little Bighorn itself, described in all of its frightening detail, is the riveting climax to an artfully portrayed collision of two civilizations: one reaching for its manifest destiny, one struggling for survival.