Lakota Noon:
The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat
Author: Gregory F. Michno
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Originally published in 1997, sixth printing in 2007

 

From the Publisher:

"Lakota Noon now reigns as the starting point for any intelligent discussion of the Indian side of the Battle of the Little Bighorn." —South Dakota History

In Lakota Noon, the Indian participants of the Battle of the Little Bighorn tell their own story of that hot day in June 1876. The author's innovative approach allows readers to follow the warriors onto the battlefield and see the fight through their eyes.

 

From the back of the book is this review by historian and author Brian W. Dippie:
"Lakota Noon takes its place with Charles Kuhlman's Legend Into History and John Gray's Custer's Last Campaign as a carefully reasoned analysis of the action at the Little Bighorn. By breaking the Indian accounts of the battle into segments, then correlating them on a plausible time scale, Greg Michno has produced a coherent narrative that reconciles discrepances and is distinguished by an absorbing immediacy.

 

Lakota Noon places the victors where they belong - front and cneter - while adding a new dimension to the old debate over what happened at the Little Bighorn.  This is an enthralling work certain to captivate every student of the Custer Battle." 
   -Brian W. Dippie author of Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth

 

About the Author:
Gregory F. Michno is the author of Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat and The Mystery of E Troop: Custer's Gray Horse Company at the Little Bighorn, both published by Mountain Press, as well as USS Pampanito: Killer-Angel (University of Oklahoma Press), Death on the Hellships (Naval Institute), and Battle at Sand Creek: The Military Perspecitve. He has also written numerous articles in Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Journal of the West, Wild West, and other western history publications.

A member of the Western History Association, Order of the Indian Wars, Little Big Horn Associates, and several other organizations, Michno holds a master's degree in history from the University of Northern Colorado. He lives with his wife, Susan Michno, in Longmont, Colorado.

Paperback. 336 pages. B&W photographs. Maps.