John Foley on the Great Bloody Plains

Two men named John Foley rode into the Valley of the Little Bighorn with George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry. Only one John Foley returned. This obscure survivor, polar opposite of the famous Custer, presents an unusual perspective, and the reconstruction of his eighty-six years results in a book where the lines between biography, history, and fiction essentially vanish. Readers familiar with only the more popular anecdotes regarding the War Between the States, Reconstruction, and the Plains Indian Wars will find themselves in Foley’s boots, confronted with the gritty, factual depictions of a distinctly American time capsule.