Author: Harper> Gordon
Publisher: Casemate Group
Publication year: 2014
E-ISBN: 9781612002804
Subject: K History and Geography
Keyword: 历史、地理
Language: ENG
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Description
Gordon Harper's remarkable book, Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer's Last Stand (Casemate Publishing, 2014) was conceived, researched, compiled, and written over a fifty-year period. After becoming fascinated with the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Gordie (as he was known) discovered that many of the stories, secondary publications, and accounts of the battle were based on erroneous information. Gordie's stated goal in writing the book was to compile all of the primary sources related to the battle and campaign-letters, reports, interviews, testimony, diary entries, and contemporary newspaper articles-and glean from them the information that was reliable, factual, and untainted by subsequent embellishment. His intent was to have all of those primary sources, plus the book he compiled based only on those sources, published simultaneously. The problem with that plan was that there were more than 1,700 pages, nearly two million words, of primary source material which, in addition to the 400 pages of his manuscript and more than 80 pages of bibliography, amounted to a larger publication than is realistic or cost beneficial for modern publishing houses.Casemate Publishers overcame that problem by publishing the book both in traditional hard copy and in an electronic version, and the appendices and bibliography companion only as an e-book: The Fights on the Little Horn Companion: Gordon Harper's Full Appendices and Bibliography.In this pu
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