M. John Lubetkin, is a retired cable television executive and the author of Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone; Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey; Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873, winner of the Little Big Horn Associates John M. Carroll Award (Book of the Year) and a Spur Award for Best Historical Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America; and the novel Custer's Gold.
John Lubetkin has served up another exceptional trove of firsthand
accounts documenting northwestern Dakota Territory and Montana's
Yellowstone River valley, all under the guise of the Northern
Pacific Railroad surveys of 1872. The journal entries, letters,
diaries, and newspaper articles collected here describe industry,
landscapes, and Native peoples existing in a raw but enduringly
fascinating time in the American West."" - Paul L. Hedren, author
of After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
""Before Custer presents an array of little-known sources
highlighting the Northern Pacific Railroad survey of 1872, which
factored into the impending war with the Sioux in 1876 - 77. John
Lubetkin knows this topic well, and his selections are exciting and
significant."" - Jerome A. Greene, author of American Carnage:
Wounded Knee, 1890
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