Name: Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
Author: Evan S Connell

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The Joe Rogan Experience

In two episodes, the title was briefly brought up when one guest noted she had read it, and another described listening to its audiobook version about the Battle of Little Bighorn. Neither host provided further commentary on its content or merits. The mentions were simple acknowledgments rather than recommendations. Overall, the book was casually mentioned.

Episode: #1442 - Shannon O'Loughlin

She mentioned having read the book but did not elaborate further on its content.

And then I read Son of the Morning Star,

Episode: #1394 - Matt Farah

Matt referred to an audiobook he was listening to about the Battle of Little Bighorn titled Son of the Morning Star.

I listened to a book called Son of the Morning Star.

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The MeatEater Podcast

The book was highlighted as a favorite for its vivid narrative of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and its meticulous journal excerpts, offering stark insight into the hardships faced by Native Americans. Steve Rinella praised its storytelling while Joe Rogan noted its heavy but compelling portrayal of the era’s struggles. The discussion emphasized the contrast between the Sioux’s bison-fueled vigor and the weaker U.S. cavalry, underscoring the book’s depth and relevance.

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Episode: Ep. 455: The Wager with David Grann

This book was referenced as a favorite, focusing on the Battle of the Little Bighorn and similar narrative techniques to The Wager.

one of my favorite books of all time um is called the son of the morning star and it gets in it's about the events that played out and it's about the events that played out around the battle of the little bighorn when custer was killed uh and he does a similar thing with what people put in what they leave out and there's this great anecdote early in the book where there's a physician who just keeps meticulous notes of what he saw that day this is this is the people that fought that the first soldiers that come across the battlefield and what he saw and who did what what did what not in his journal is an observation by another person about something the physician did which he went into a teepee and tried to remove the moccasin of a warrior who had been killed days before it's very hot and the warrior's skin slipped and he was trying to so he's trying to loot a body and then he gets physically ill and the writer points out that did not make the journal yes of the physician who is otherwise quite meticulous

Episode: Ep. 403: Rattling Bucks with Joe Rogan

This book on Native Americans was described as heavy reading, highlighting the difficulties and hardships faced by these people.

and then you turn me on to Son of the Morning Star

you read those books and you just imagine the hard scrabble life the difficulty those people face the horrors the hardships it's just it's amazing how that wasn't that long ago

Episode: Ep. 346: Sex and Suicide on the Lewis and Clark Ex...

The book includes an anecdote about the hazards of journal reading, highlighting discrepancies between a doctor's detailed account of events and another's journal entry describing the doctor's actions.

Evan S. Connell's book, son of the morning star, where he describes, there's this doctor who is among the party that finds Custer's command after it's slaughtered.

Episode: Ep. 320: Rut, The Dating App

The book was referenced to describe the physical prowess of the Sioux people who subsisted on bison meat, contrasting them with the comparatively weaker US cavalry soldiers. The speaker noted the Sioux's strength and fighting ability, citing details from the book about the Battle of Little Bighorn.

If you do yourself a favor and read Son of the Morning Star, he talks about what happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn and compared to the cavalry soldiers, the Euro-American, like the white cavalry soldiers, just in the diet they were on when they came up against these people who lived off bison meat, they were astounded, like the Sioux, the Oglala and Onkapapa Sioux in the Northern Cheyenne, he describes those people going through the cavalry soldiers like a wolf through sheep.

Son of the Morning Star Custer and the Little Bighorn