Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors (83 page)

CHAPTER 22

1. Stewart,
   Custer’s Luck,
   315.
   

2. Quoted in Graham,
   The Custer Myth,
   248.
   

3. Quoted, ibid.
   

4. Quoted from Lieutenant E. S. Godfrey’s account, ibid., 138–39.
   

5. Garnett interview, Ricker tablets, Nebraska State Historical Society.
   

6. Hinman interview with Short Bull, Nebraska State Historical Society.
   

7. Clark to the Assistant Adjutant General, September 14, 1877, War Department Records, AGO, Division of the Missouri.
   

8. Monaghan,
   Custer,
   384–86; Graham,
   The Custer Myth,
   287–95; Stewart,
   Custer’s Luck,
   341.
   

9. Graham,
   The Custer Myth,
   71.
   

10. Yellow Horse interview, Ricker tablets, Nebraska State Historical Society.
    

11. Graham,
    The Custer Myth,
    110.
    

12. Ibid., 103.
    

13. Ibid., 73.
    

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