mayflower nathaniel philbrick sparknotes

Philbrick has done a prodigious amount of research and he’s woven it all into an evocative and cinematic narrative. Bruce Barcott, cover story, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and The Last Stand will introduce him to a generation….” How could he not? The man was a spectacular piece of work…. Marcus Reno and others who fought that day. “In The Last Stand, Nathaniel Philbrick…offers an account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn that gives appropriate space to Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Maj. With a historian’s eye for detail, a professor’s gift for analysis and a journalist’s commitment to immediacy, Philbrick tells this oft-told tale with insight and panache.” -RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH “ The Last Stand is at once a work of prodigious scholarship and an example of popular history at its best. The Last Stand is a mesmerizing account of the archetypal story of the American West, one that continues to haunt our collective imagination. Throughout, Philbrick beautifully evokes the history and geography of the Great Plains with his characteristic grace and sense of drama. Within a few years of Little Bighorn, however, all the major tribal leaders would be confined to Indian reservations. Increasingly outraged by the government’s Indian policies, the Plains tribes allied themselves and held their ground in southern Montana.

Philbrick reminds readers that the Battle of the Little Bighorn was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations. In his tightly structured narrative, Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly sketches the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, whose charisma and political savvy earned him the position of leader of the Plains Indians, and George Armstrong Custer, one of the Union’s greatest cavalry officers and a man with a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage.

Mayflower nathaniel philbrick sparknotes