Son of the Morning Star

Why it’s on the list: 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 saw it: A reply to @typesfast’s question on X, June 5, 2025 — “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/typesfast/status/1930617097068912787

Distinct from Morning Star, the Pierce Brown novel Kyle has read.

Connections

• What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
• History · Wilderness — where this sits in the corpus.