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SCOTT, DOUGLAS D. ; WILLEY, P. & CONNOR, MELISSA A. ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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SCOTT, DOUGLAS D. ; WILLEY, P. & CONNOR, MELISSA A. They Died With Custer. Soldiers' Bones From The Battle Of The Little Bighorn.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2002. s Softcover. Brand new book.
Dead men tell no tales, and the soldiers who rode and died with George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn have been silent statistics for more than a hundred years. By blending historical sources, archaeological evidence, and painstaking analysis of the skeletal remains, Douglas D. Scott, P. Willey, and Melissa A. Connor reconstruct biographies of many of the individual soldiers, identifying age, height, possible race, state of health, and the specific way each died. They also link reactions to the battle over the years to shifts in American views regarding the appropriate treatment of the dead. Douglas D. Scott is Chief of the Rocky Mountain Research Division, Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service. He holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado and is widely known as an author, lecturer, and expert on military archaeology. Other books by Douglas D. Scott include Archaeological Insights Into the Custer Battle. "Even a few of the faces - from young privates to grizzled sergeants - grace these pages through reconstructions. . . . [These are] pipe-smoking and tobacco-chewing men with rotten teeth, a lifetime of broken bones and poor nutrition, and a host of painful back problems from years on horseback. The West loses its romance in a hurry." - Robert Locke, Discovering Archaeology
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