Kyle Harrison
to-read
Son of the Morning Star
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
- Author
- Evan S. Connell
- Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 441
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Evan S. Connell’s account of Custer and the Little Bighorn, told in digressions and eyewitness fragments rather than a clean narrative line — a history that keeps showing you how contested the evidence is.
Where I heard about it
- @typesfast’s thread — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025.
About this edition
Distinct from Morning Star, the Pierce Brown novel I’ve read.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- History · Wilderness — where this sits in the corpus.