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Shooting Arrows & Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press and the Little Bighorn By James E. Mueller, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2013, $29.95. Exactly when and in what ways newspapers nationwide first reported the shocking news of Lt. Col. George A. Custer’s June 1876 death (along with many other 7th U.S. Cavalry troopers, of course) …
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