Peter Thompson Book Review

Peter Thompson of Company C, 7th US Cavalry, wrote his account of the Battle of the Little Big Horn which appeared in the Belle Fourche Bee in eight weekly installments. The first installment was printed February 19, 1914 and continued weekly until April 9, 1914. Thompson's account not only provided an enlisted man's perspective of the battle but it also ruffled a lot of feathers. Thompson put up with ridicule and doubt for the rest of his life.

Daniel O. Magnussen published his book, Peter Thompson's Narrative of the Little Bighorn Campaign, 1876. The book was an analysis of Thompson's 1914 narrative and of the battle itself. Today, the book, in fine condition, routinely sells for hundreds of dollars.

On February 1, 1975, The Missoulian newspaper out of Missoula, Montana, published a book review of this new book on the Custer fight. Click on the image below for an enlarged copy.

The Missoulian, Missoula, Montana, February 1, 1975

You can search used bookstores and websites for a copy of Magnussen's book, or you can download your very own copy of Thompson's narrative as it appeared in the Belle Fourche Bee in 1914. To download your copy of Thompson's Little Big Horn narrative in PDF format, click on the link below. 

Peter Thompson's Narrative, Belle Fourche Bee, February to April 1914

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