Primary Sources : (diaries, interviews, official documents, archaeology reports):

Barnitz, Albert, Life in Custer's Cavalry, (Robert Utley, ed.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977.
Brininstool, E. A. Troopers with Custer, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1925.
Calloway, Colin G. (ed.) Our Hearts Fell to the Ground, Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martins Press, 1996.
Campbell, W. S. W. S. Campbell Collection, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Library.
Carroll, John M. (ed.) General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn: The Federal View, The Gary Owen Press, 1976.
Catlin, George, Letters and Notes on the Manners Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians. Vols. 1 and 2. New York: Dover Publications, 1973.
Crook, George, (Martin F. Schmitt, Ed.) General George Crook, His Auto Biography, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946.
Custer, George A. My Life on the Plains, (Milo M Quaife Ed.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1952.
DeRudio, Charles C. "My Personal Story." Frontier and Midland Magazine, Volume XIV, January 1934, 155-59.
Freeman, Henry Blanchard, The Freeman Journal: the Infantry in the Sioux Campaign of 1876 (George A. Schneider Ed.) San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, c1977. (104 p. including official documentation of the Sioux wars)
Gibbon, John. "Last Summer's Expedition Against the Sioux." American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. II, April 1877, 271-304.
Gibbon, John. "Hunting Sitting Bull." American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. II, October 1877, 665-94.
Godfrey Edward S.. "Custer's Last Battle." Century Magazine, No. 43. January 1892, 358-87.
Green Jerome A. (ed.) Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1867-1877, The Military View, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Green Jerome A. (ed.) Lakota and Cheyenne, Indian views of the Great Sioux War, 1867-1877, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Hammer, Kenneth M. (Ed.) Custer in '76: Walter Camp's Notes on the Custer Fight, Provo, BYU Press, 1976. A useful source for some of the research, and invaluable interviews by Walter Camp.
Hinman, Eleanor T. "Oglala Sources on the Life of Crazy Horse, Interviews given to Eleanor T. Hinman," Nebraska History /Magazine 57, No. 1, Spring 1976: 43.
Kellog, Mark. "Notes, May 17-June 9 of the Little Big Horn Expedition." Contributions to the Historical society of Montana, Vol. IX, 1923, 213-25.
Kladecek, Edward and Mable, To Kill an Eagle: Indian Views of the Last Days of Crazy Horse, Bolder: Johnson books, 1981.
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McClernand, Edward J. On Time for Disaster, The Rescue of Custer's Command, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969. Originally published in 1878, McClernand was a Lieutenant in the column that "rescued" the 7th Cavalry Survivors, and was adamantly hostile toward the battlefield conduct of Custer's surviving subordinates Major Marcus Reno, and Captain Frederick Benteen.
Nabokov, Peter, Two leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior, New York: Thomas Crowell, 1967.
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Government Documents:

"Military Expedition Against the Sioux Indians," Hse. Ex. Documents No. 184, 44th Congress, 1st Session.
Report of the Secretary of War, 1876, Volume I, 44th Congress 2nd Session, Ex. Doc. 1 part 2.
Report of the Secretary of War, 1877, 45th Congress, Volume II, Part II (Appendix P under Report of Chief of Engineers contains Report of Lt. Edward Maguire, Chief Engineer Department of Dakota; Report of Lt. Edward J. McClernand, Acting Engineer Officer, District of Montana, "Journal of the Marches Made by the Forces Under Colonel John Gibbon, Commanding the Expedition Down The Yellowstone Between the 1st Day of April and the 29th day of September 1876"; and Report of Lt. George D. Wallace, Seventh Cavalry.)
Proceedings, HMGS Military and Naval History Forum, Cold Wars, No. 2, March, 1995.
Overfield, Loyd J. II (ed.) The Little Big Horn, 1876, The Official Communications, Documents and Reports of the Officers and Troops of the Campaign, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971.
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More Sioux Wars

Part 1: Introduction: Warfare on the Great Plains
Part 2: Collision Courses: The American and Sioux Empires
Part 3: Strategic and Operational Crisis
Part 4: Military Acculturation and Tactical Evolution
Part 5: The Tactical Acculturation Model: The Evolved Sioux Tactics
Part 6a: The Great Sioux War of 1876
Part 6b: Battle of Little Big Horn
Part 7: Conclusion: Demise of the Plains Warriors
Part 7: Bibliography: Primary, Secondary, and Government Sources