**An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history. –** Los Angeles Times Nathaniel Philbrick, author of *In the Hurricane’s Eye* , Pulitzer Prize finalist *Mayflower* , and *Valiant Ambition* , is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. *The Last Stand* is Philbrick’s monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to the legend of Custer’s Last Stand. Bringing a wealth of new information to his subject, as well as his characteristic literary flair, Philbrick details the collision between two American icons- George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull-that both parties wished to avoid, and brilliantly explains how the battle that ensued has been shaped and reshaped by national myth.