Custer in '76: Walter Camp's Notes on the Custer Fight by Camp, Walter; edited by Kenneth Hammer - 1976

Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1976. Hardbound . 1st Printing. BINDING/CONDITION: pale green cloth with brown imitation leather at the s pine; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped (part of it still showing). Includes a section of maps and historic photographs. This is a collection of personal accounts from survivors of Custer's Last Stand, including interviews with John Martin, trumpeter and orderly to Custer; Medal of Honor winner Stanislas Roy; Second Lt. Winfield Edgerly; Second Lt. Charles De Rudio; Private Roman Rutten; Sergeant Daniel Knipe; and other Seventh Cavalry men and officers. There are also accounts from Custer's Indian scouts: Goes Ahead, Hairy Moccasin, Little Sioux, Strike Two, and notably, Curly, the Crow scout who witnessed the attack on the Custer column. And there are memorable accounts from the Indians who fought against Custer: Turtle Rib, Black Bear, He Dog, White Bull, Sturdy Bear, and Foolish Elk, who fought with Crazy Horse on the day of the battle. Walter Mason Camp, a railroad construction engineer by profession, began interviewing the survivors of the Little Bighorn battle in the late 1880s. He died in 1925 before he could compile his notes into a written history. Kenneth Hammer has edited the notes for publication. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 303 pages. Appendices, index. Brown endpapers.