Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Introduction xv
Chapter 1 Family Roots 1
Chapter 2 Growing Up in the Dining Fork 9
Chapter 3 Moving On 21
Chapter 4 Going to War 33
Chapter 5 Tom Custer's Long Years Road to Stone Bridge 45
Chapter 6 Monroe 55
Chapter 7 Hometown Heroes 63
Chapter 8 Brothers in Arms 77
Chapter 9 Namozine, Appomattox, and Renown 85
Chapter 10 The General, the Old Lady, and the Scamp Go West 97
Chapter 11 Adjusting to the Regular US Army 105
Chapter 12 The Bloody Road to Washita 115
Chapter 13 The Sons of the Morning Star on the Plains 129
Chapter 14 A Scattered Family 143
Chapter 15 Life as Wasichu Outside the States 155
Chapter 16 Wasichu on the Yellowstone 163
Chapter 17 The Custer Clan in the West 173
Chapter 18 The Custer Clan and the Black Hills Expedition 181
Chapter 19 The Winter of Rain-in-the-Face 191
Chapter 20 The Winter of Distraction 201
Chapter 21 Lively Work Before Us 211
Chapter 22 Marching to Meet the Enemy 221
Chapter 23 Last Stands 235
Chapter 24 Aftermath 249
Chapter 25 And Their Lives Went On 263
Chapter 26 A New Century 273
Chapter 27 Descendants 283
About the Author 293
Maps 295
Genealogical Appendices 303
Bibliography 307
Index 313
