出版社周刊评论
The publisher claims that this is the first book to tell the Indian version of the Battle at the Little Big Horn (1876) and the first to be written by Native Americans. Kammen, a writer of Western fiction, joins Lefthand, a Crow historian, and Marshall, a Sioux student of the battle, in an attempt to offer fresh insight into the victory over U.S. troops under Gen. George Armstrong Custer. Based on oral histories and previously published works, the book interweaves accounts of life in the Indian and U.S. military camps, bringing the story to a drmatic yet unsatisfying conclusion. Using imagined dialogue and other fictional techniques, the fanciful history provides little by way of convincing documentation. Ultimately, its substance hanging on little more than gunsmoke, the work fails. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Published to coincide with Custer Battlefield National Monument's renaming as Little Big Horn National Monument, this book incorporates Native American ideas about the famous battle as they have been retained in the historical memory of the area's residents. Kammen, a prolific author of fast-paced Western fiction set in Montana and Wyoming ( Montana Rimfire, Zebra, 1991), collaborates with two Native Americans: Joe Marshall, who provided a traditional Sioux perspective, and Fredrick Lefthand, who gives the Crow viewpoint. However, among the many works on Custer and the Little Big Horn, there are better books acknowledging the Native American perspective, most notably Joseph Kossuth Dixon's The Vanishing Race (1913) and Robert Utley's excellent Cavalier in Buckskin (Univ. of Oklahoma, 1988). Kammen's style is better suited to Western fiction. Not recommended. --Margaret W. Norton, Fenwick H.S. Lib., Oak Park, Ill. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
