The Last Stand Playaway Version Author:Nathaniel Philbrick; George Guidall (Narrator) Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands like Thermopylae and the Alamo. With a tightly structured narrative, Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly sketches the two la... more »rger than life antagonists in a mesmerizing account of the archetypal story of the American West.« less