The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

"An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." --Los Angeles Times

Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to the legend of Custer's Last Stand. Bringing a wealth of new information to his subject, as well as his characteristic literary flair, Philbrick details the collision between two American icons- George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull-that both parties wished to avoid, and brilliantly explains how the battle that ensued has been shaped and reshaped by national myth.

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 04/26/2011
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780143119609
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.9
Point Value: 23
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 138175 / Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 04/22/2011 pg. 103
New York Times Book Review 05/22/2011 pg. 28

About the Author
Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award; Mayflower, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Bunker Hill, winner of the New England Book Award; Sea of Glory; The Last Stand; Why Read Moby Dick?; and Away Off Shore. He lives in Nantucket. His new book, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution, will be published in May 2016.