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The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn
America has a mythic story that is inhabited by giants, men like General George Armstrong Custer, Captain Thomas Ward Custer, and Lieutenant James Calhoun. They live large on the silver screen, in literature, and in the American imagination. We can all see them on Last Stand Hill, out of ammunition, their sabers drawn, knowing the end is coming. But there is another story—a story that has largely been ignored for over a century and a half. It’s the powerful and heartrending tale of what happened to the wives they left behind after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Hounded by the media and tormented by souvenir hunters, they were not allowed to move beyond the sorrow.
Once or twice in a lifetime comes a meticulously researched book that so radically changes your understanding of a historical event it is as though the scales fall from your eyes and you actually see what happened for the first time. The Widowed Ones. Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn is that book.
Listen to the women’s side of the story. We promise you will never be the same.
Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear
New York Times bestselling authors of Dissolution and The Ice Orphan
