Amazon.com On June 25， 1876， Gen. George Armstrong Custer and some 200 cavalrymen under his command blundered into a coulee along the banks of Montana's Little Bighorn River. They never came out; several thousand Cheyenne， Sioux， and Arapaho warriors saw to that. The name and the event of the Little Bighorn have subsequently entered into American mythology， reverberating throughout the nation's history. Custer's famous demise has yielded thousands of books， and Son of the Morning Star is exceptional among them: part anthropological study of Plains Indian life， part military history， and part character study of the principal actors in the Battle of the Little Bighorn， Evan Connell's work presents the first truly balanced account of Custer's career. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Page Stegner， The New York Times Book Review "Impressive in its massive presentation of information... Son of the Morning Star makes good reading-its prose is elegant， its tone the voice of dry wit， its meandering narrative skillfully crafted. Mr. Connell is above all a storyteller， and the story he tells is vastly more complicated than who did what to whom on June 25， 1876." --This text refers to the Paperback edition. See all Editorial Reviews