Nathaniel Philbrick's The Last Stand

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The Last Stand is arranged into sixteen chapters and in those sixteen chapters there are the accounts of Native American and American soldiers views on the preparation for the battle and the battle then the aftermath. Nathaniel Philbrick also includes a preface, dedication page, list of maps, epilogue, appendix A, appendix B, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography,illustration credits, and an

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