Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn, credited to Robert Marshall Utley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn by Robert Marshall Utley. Read in English by David Wales It should be noted that this national park is now called the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. “The long, tragic history of Indian warfare in the American West reached its climax with the defeat of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry in Montana’s valley of the Little Bighorn River on June 25, 1876. Although the Indians won the battle, they subsequently lost the war against the white man’s efforts to end their independent way of life. The story of the battle and its consequences is told in the following pages by Robert M. Utley in a compelling narrative of an event that has excited the imagination and provoked controversy every since it happened.” This is U.S. National Park Service Handbook 132, published in 1987. There are many sidebars of maps, photographs, and illustrations with informative text. Many – not all - of these sidebar texts are recorded at the end of the main text in each section. The author is a well regarded historian with 22 books to his credit who specializes in the American West. - Summary by Book Preface and David Wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn
• Author credits: Robert Marshall Utley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 2:58:09

Catalogue topics

• Native Americans
• montana
• george armstrong custer
• u.s. army
• custer battlefield
• custer's last stand
• little bighorn
• battle of the little bighorn

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface (About This Book) and Author's Biographical Sketch — 2:00
2. 01 - Part 1 An American Legend — 5:40
3. 02 - Part 2 Custer's Last Battle: 2A Road To Little Bighorn; Recipe For Disaster — 20:09
4. 03 - Part 2 Custer's Last Battle: 2B Campaign Of 1876 — 50:48
5. 04 - Part 2 Custer's Last Battle: 2C Reno Attacks; Custer Destroyed — 34:05
6. 05 - Part 2 Custer's Last Battle: 2D Reno Besieged; Rescue; Pursuit; War's End; Why? — 44:58
7. 06 - Part 3 Custer Battlefield Today - From Battlefield To National Monument — 20:29

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