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Crazy Horse and Custer

From bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose, a dual biography of two great nineteenth century warriors, General Custer and Crazy Horse, culminating in the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 496 pages

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