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Title: Custer's Last Fight: The Battle Of The Little Big Horn (Battle Of The Little Big Horn) by David C. Evans ISBN: 0-912783-30-3 Publisher: Upton & Sons Pub. Date: 20 June, 1999 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $85.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Custer Fight From A Logical Viewpoint
Comment: David Evans's "Custer's Last Fight: The Battle of the Little Big Horn" is a carefully documented and objectively presented analysis of the controversial battle.

This will be judged as a pro-Custer book, but I believe that Evan's conclusions are arrived at objectively, with weight of evidence. With the current trend to portray Custer as a bloodthirsty fool in the mode of Chivington, it is refreshing to read Evans's assessments of the performances of Crook, Gibbon, Terry, Reno and Benteen, as well as Custer, and come to some very interesting conclusions.

The book is a very "good read" with the text laid out in a logical and interesting sequence. Evans blends participant and contemporary quotes into the text, which gives the book a very personal feel.

I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the Indian Wars, and George Armstrong Custer

Rating: 5
Summary: Dave Evans brings the battle of the LBH to life.
Comment: David Evans brings to life the battle of the Little Big Horn and the events leading up to this important moment in history. All classes of readers will find this book interesting and informative, from the most casual to the serious historian. The latter will be particularly impressed by the extensive array of referenced sources and other supporting documentation presented. I particularly appreciated the objective manner in which the many unknown (and controversial) aspects of the campaign are handled. Conclusions drawn are well grounded, resulting from careful analysis of relevant considerations, all of which are revealed to the reader. Equally appealing are the author's skillful portrayal of literally scores of key and fringe characters, and their interrelationships. Custer's Last Fight will surely be recognized as being one of the most significant works published on the subject. I highly recommend it for all readers.

Rating: 5
Summary: A must have for Indian Wars buffs.
Comment: A truly great interpretive account of the battle. A mammoth size book, 604 pages and 18 appendices, on the Little Big Horn that is a true pleasure to read. Very few battle historians have equaled Mr. Evans in his analytical ability in interpreting the Custer Fight. Despite having studied this battle since I was a kid, I have never made many, many of the connections he has made. The labor that must have gone into this book is overwhelming. Mr. Evans has done a fine job of giving enough pre-Little Big Horn background that there is a basis for his fine job of analysis without boring the hard-core battle enthusiast with factual repetition we have all read countless times before. The two strong points of this book are the analysis where Mr. Evans sees relationships between facts and events that many of us may have overlooked before, and the interweaving of personal narrative that not only often forms the basis of the analysis, but also brings the story to life. I have been reading about this battle for over 40 years and in reading some passages of this book I often ask myself why I didn't think of that before. He makes an excellent argument for the probability that Custer's command was still alive and fighting while troops were on Weir Point. This book is not new on facts, but it is new on analysis. However, many of the facts are from obscure sources that will probably be new to many readers. The book can be read on several levels. Just reading the text itself is a great read and you get the benefit of his analysis as well as the excitement of the details he has built into the story. If you wish to go further, there are very lengthy footnotes that add even more information. The appendices contain a timetable that one could spend days analyzing and working with. Other appendices include a roster of all those serving with the Seventh at the battle including notes as to what happened to them. Another lists all of the Indians known to be in the hostile camp and includes whatever notes are available about them. The final chapter deals with some of the controversies surrounding the battle. The dust jacket is most attractively done with a full reproduction of Stirnweis' "The Last Command". Well footnoted. This book is a must!