A Dispatch To Custer. The Tragedy Of Lieutenant Kidder.

RANDY AND NANCY ALLAN JOHNSON

Publication: Erin House Books, 2023, Palatine, Illinois, 1999

Second edition, revised & expanded. Signed on the title page by Randy Johnson. Originally published in 1999. 8vo. Blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xvi [4], 188 pp., acknowledgments, foreword, illustrated, portraits, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Foreword by John M. Carroll. New facts are uncovered about the death of Lt. Kidder and the eleven members of his command who were killed by superior forces during his ill-fated assignment to find Custer. En route a band of Sioux and Cheyenne ambushed Kidder and his party, killing all eleven soldiers and an Indian guide. Custer discovered their mutilated bodies a few days later near modern-day Goodland, Kansas, and ordered they be buried in a common grave. When Kidders father was notified of his sons death he began the difficult task of recovering his sons remains. Told mainly through the letters of Kidders family and military colleagues, Johnsons and Allans account conveys a rare intimacy, while the authors careful analysis and insightful interpretation fill out the story. The first full-length book on this subject. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 52692