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| Author | Robert Conroy |
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| Cover artist | Kurt Miller |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Alternate history novel |
| Published | May 5, 2015 |
| Publisher | Baen Books |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 374 |
| ISBN | 978-1476780511 |
1882: Custer in Chains is an American alternate history novel written by Robert Conroy. [1] It was first published on May 5, 2015. [2] [3]
The point of divergence occurs during the Great Sioux War of 1876 by George Armstrong Custer surviving and defeating Sitting Bull and the Sioux at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Custer's victory over the Native Americans results in him becoming popular enough to run successfully for President in the 1880 presidential election.
Two years later, Custer finds himself bored and seeks new worlds to conquer. He and his wife Libbie fixate on the decaying Spanish Empire as his source for immortality. He fails to understand that the American military is not up to such a venture.
When a group of Americans on a ship headed for Cuba is massacred, a war against Spain could be on the horizon because of the incident.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory.
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.
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