Custer's Scouts at the Little Bighorn: The Arikara Narrative

Armed with the Arikara Narrative, you'll step directly onto the trail with Custer's 7th Cavalry and the Native scouts who rode ahead toward the Little Bighorn. This is one of the essential eyewitness sources for anyone who is fascinated by Custer's Last Stand, the Indian Wars of the American West, and the complex role of Native American allies in U.S. Army campaigns.

Ride with the Arikara and Crow scouts as they guide George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry toward the fateful Battle of the Little Bighorn. This gripping primary source, long regarded as indispensable by historians of Custer's Last Stand, preserves the voices of Native warriors who were actually there on June 25-26, 1876.?

In 1912, nine Arikara survivors sat down to tell what they saw: the march, the scouts' warnings, the first sight of the great village, and the chaos of the fighting that followed. Their accounts were carefully translated and published in 1920, creating a rare, unfiltered record of the Little Bighorn from the perspective of Native American army scouts who rode with Custer, alongside Crow allies and the famed Sioux-French scout Mitch Bouyer.?

Perfect for readers of frontier history, Indian Wars campaigns, and Great Sioux War studies, this volume brings you close to the men who scouted the Wolf Mountains, read sign on the high plains, and watched Custer ride toward his destiny on the ridges above the Little Bighorn River. Whether you are researching the 7th Cavalry, George Armstrong Custer, or Native participation in U.S. military operations, this is a cornerstone text you will return to again and again.