“I have collected here, and offer in this volume, a great many bits of now scarce source material, from which you, the reader, may construct a mosaic of your own, appraising the value and proper placement of each item, should you wish to write a story of Custer’s Last Fight. It will probably be a better one than many heretofore written.†From the Custer Myth
Firsthand sources in The Custer Myth include:
- Narratives of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arikara, and Crow
- Philo Clark’s 1877 battlefield survey
- Statements and letters by scouts and other nonmilitary participants
- The Benteen-Goldin letters
- “Custer’s’ Last Battle,†the 1892 Century Magazine article by General Edward S. Godfrey
- General Winfield Scott Edgerly’s 1881 statement about the battle
- Military and literary records of Theodore W. Goldin
