| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Book Review

To Hell with Honor: Custer and the Little Bighorn. By Larry Sklenar. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xv + 395 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

"There he is, God damn him! He'll never fight any more" (p. 328). Captain Frederick Benteen growled those words over Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's bloated, blackened corpse two days following the Battle of the Little Bighorn. On 25 July 1876 Custer led his Seventh Cavalry to the greatest battlefield defeat suffered by any U. S. Army unit on the American frontier. Over a period of two days, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians inflicted 265 deaths and unwittingly guaranteed Custer's immortality. Since his spectacular demise, professional and lay historians have painstakingly puzzled over the Seventh's maneuvers that fateful day and skirmished over whether Custer made mistakes on the battlefield. 1

A retired U. S. Defense Department analyst, Larry Sklenar joins the Little Bighorn fray in To Hell with Honor. He seeks no silver bullets, but applies sober, tenacious, and methodical analysis of the fragmentary evidence, primarily army records and participant accounts, to retell "nearly the whole truth of what happened at the Little Bighorn." To gauge distances and time and to study topography, Sklenar has also walked and studied the battlefield now known as the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. His re-creation of the battle is well reasoned and highly plausible. . . .

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