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Archeology at the Battle of Little Bighorn http://www.mwac.nps.gov/libi/ [Archived]

Bernardi, Daniel. The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1996.

Brown, Dee, et al.; Either, Eric, interviewer. "Custer: How Today's Historians Rate Him." American History 32.5 (1997): 22-28.

Brown, Eulalie. "Sitting Bull's Version of Little Bighorn." American History Illustrated 1.5 (1966): 27-31.

The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer https://web.archive.org/web/20070801170345/http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/csi/history/custer.asp [Archived]

Crazy Horse: The Last Warrior. A&E Home Video, 1995.

Crowther, Bosley. "Errol Flynn as Gen. Custer at Strand." New York Times 21 Nov 1941: 23.

Crowther, Bosley. "Heading one off at Eagle Pass: In They Died with Their Boots On History is Scalped by Writers in Warbonnets, but it Makes a Good Show Anyway." New York Times 30 Nov. 1941: 5.

Cullens, J. "Custer's Last Stand." Army Quarterly and Defense Journal [Great Britain] 90.1 (1965): 104-9.

Curtin, Patricia A. "From Pity To Necessity: How National Events Shaped Coverage Of The Plains Indian War." American Journalism 12.1 (1995): 3-21.

Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association http://www.custerbattlefield.org/

Custer, George A. My Life on the Plains. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1962.

Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. New York: Macmillan, 1969.

Dippie, Brian W. " 'The Thrillin'est Fight Ever!' Sheridan Re-enacts Custer's Last Stand." Annals of Wyoming 54.2 (1982): 2-9.

Dippie, Brian W. Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1994.

Donovan, James. A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn--the Last Great Battle of the American West. New York: Little, Brown, 2008.

Gallagher, Tag. "Raoul Walsh." Sense of Cinema. http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/walsh/

General George A. Custer Home Page http://www.garryowen.com/

George Armstrong Custer: America's Golden Cavalier.

George Custer: Showdown at Little Big Horn.

Gomery, Douglas. "Raoul Walsh." Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Ve-Y/Walsh-Raoul.html

Gray, John S. "Custer Throws a Boomerang." Montana 11. 2 (1961): 2-12.

Hays, Robert G. A Race at Bay: New York Times Editorials on "the Indian problem," 1860-1900. Carbondale : Southern Illinois UP, 1997.

High Spots of Custeriana A Bibliography by Tal Luther (1972). http://www.littlebighorn.info/Articles/tal2.htm

Hofling, Charles K., MD. Custer and The Little Bighorn: A Psychobiographical Inquiry. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1981.

Hutton, Paul A. "From Little Bighorn to Little Big Man: The Changing Image of a Western Hero in Popular Culture." Western Historical Quarterly 7.1 (1976): 19-45.

Hutton, Paul Andrew, ed. The Custer Reader. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1992.

Hutton, Paul Andrew. "'Correct in Every Detail': General Custer in Hollywood." Montana: The Magazine of Western History 41.1 (1991): 28-57.

Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. "They Died With Their Boots On." Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. Ed. Mark C. Carnes. New York: Holt, 1995.

Langellier, John P. Custer: The Man, the Myth, the Movies. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2000.

Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Produced and directed by Paul Stekler; written by James Welch and Paul Stekler. (American Experience) Distributed by PBS Video, 1992.

The Legend of Custer. Wavelength Video. Distributed by Simitar Entertainment, Inc., 1992.

Luce, Henry R. "They Died with Their Boots On." Time 22 Dec 1941: 47.

McMurtry, Larry. Custer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Michno, Gregory F. " 'How Big Was That Village?': Custer Loses In A Fair Fight." Journal of the West 35.1 (1996): 59-69.

Monaghan, Jay. Custer: The Life of General George Armstrong Custer. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.

Moss, Marilyn Ann. Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2011.

The New Explorers: Betrayal at Little Big Horn. A&E.

"New Films in London: A Variety of Moods." The London Times 20 April 1942: 8.

O'Hara, John. "Errol Flynn Custer." Newsweek 1 Dec 1941: 70.

Pearson, Roberta E. "Custer's Still the Hero: Textual Stability and Transformation." Journal of Film and Video 47.1/3, The Western (1995): 82-97.

Pitts, Michael. Hollywood and American History: A Filmography of over 250 Motion Pictures depicting U.S. History. Jefferson : McFarland, 1984.

The Real West: Geronimo/Custer.

Reichley, John A. "The Unknown Custer." Military Review 64.5 (1984): 72-75.

Rolland, Marc. "Knocking the Paste Eye out of the Idol: The Second Death of George Armstrong Custer." Revue Francaise d'etudes Americaines [France], 1993.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Rosenberg, Bruce A. "Custer: The Legend of the Martyred Hero in America." Journal of the Folklore Institute 9.2/3 (1972): 110-32.

Rosenberg, Bruce A. Custer and the Epic of Defeat. University Park: Penn State UP, 1974.

Ross, Thom. "Undiscovered History: The Thoughts of Thom Ross." Western Historical Quarterly 35.2 (2004): 214-24.

Sandoz, Mari. Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1961.

Scott, Douglas D., P. Willey, and Melissa A. Connor. They Died With Custer: Soldiers' Bones From The Battle Of The Little Bighorn. Oklahoma: U of Oklahoma P, 1998.

Scott, Douglas D., Peter Bleed, Andrew E. Masich, and Jason Pitch. "An Inscribed Native American Battle Image From The Little Bighorn Battlefield." Plains Anthropologist 42.161 (1997): 287-302.

Shoemaker, John O. "The Custer Court- Martial." Military Review 51.10 (1971): 36-47.

Sitting Bull: Chief of the Lakota Nation. A&E Home Video, 1995.

Sklenar, Larry. To Hell with Honor: Custer and the Little Bighorn. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2000.

Slotkin, Richard. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier on the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1985.

Steckmesser, Kent L. "Custer In Fiction." American West 1.4 (1964): 47-52, 63-64.

Stekler, Paul. "Custer and Crazy Horse Ride Again . . . and Again, and Again: Filmmaking and History at Little Bighorn." Montana: The Magazine of Western History 42.4 (1992): 63-72.

Stewart, Edgar I. "Which Indian Killed Custer?" Montana 8.3 (1958): 26-32.

Stewart, Edgar I. Custer's Luck. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1955.

Thomas Ward Custer homepage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/TomCuster.html

Utley, Robert M. "Custer: Hero Or Butcher?" American History Illustrated 5.10 (1971): 4-9, 43-48.

Utley, Robert M. Custer Battlefield. Washington: Office of Publications, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1969.

Utley, Robert M. Custer and Me: A Historian's Memoir. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2004.

Utley, Robert M. Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1962.

The War for the Black Hills. (episode #3 of The Way West) Distributed by PBS Video, 1995.

Washita Battlefield National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/waba/