| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn since 1876. By Jerome A. Greene. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xxx, 352 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3791-9.)
Thanks to George Custer's recklessness, a lopsided Indian victory, and Libbie Custer's decades-long crusade to sanctify her fallen husband, the battle of the Little Bighorn became the most notorious Indian fight in U.S. history. In time, the battlefield became a powerful symbolic landscape, attracting as many as 400,000 visitors to southeastern Montana every year. But how should this battlefield be preserved? What story should it tell? Or as Jerome A. Greene asks in this comprehensive administrative history, "Where lies the balance of visitation, interpretation, and development of this historic site when weighed against its preservation for future generations?" (p. 3).	1
Greene, a retired National Park Service historian and author of numerous Indian war books, has produced a balanced account of the changing battlefield and its many meanings, tracing the site's management (or, too often, mismanagement) from the army's largely inadequate burials on the field to the construction of an Indian memorial near Last Stand Hill in 2003.	. . .

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