For researchers this book is a welcome addition to the several other source books on the battle now available (Graham - The Custer Myth and Overfield - Official Documents of the Little Bighorn). It would appear that Camp was rather one-sided in this evaluation and generally indicates his bias in favor of Custer. Reviews 267 Custer conducted himself properly in pushing the attack against the Indians. Pick it up and read it, you might just learn something new.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The mystery and confusion only heightens the enjoyment. The whole book is dedicated to the philosophies presented by an old man, and things are really kept unclear until the very last words the book babbles out. At times the book was a little promiscuous, but removing the parts would have detracted from the books meaning. The quote sums up the whole book: in order to have balance we need the opposite of ourselves. I believe in everything, nothing is real.” The book was all about how we find balance in chaos, and how chaos is needed to create balance. One of my favorite quotes is, “I believe in nothing everything is real. The philosophical messages portrayed in the book really stick with me. It made me really focus on what I needed to read, even if I skipped whole chapters. At times I skipped portions of pages, but the third person style is refreshing. Whole chapters are sometimes devoted to descriptions, rhetorical, and sarcasm. Vivid descriptions are constantly used, which does get tedious to read.

The author paints the story in the third person. By always moving around Sissy has avoided the problems of the world, which eventually provides her with a useful outlook from the outside that proves to be useful. By magic, she means what makes her enlightened. Her thumbs are the source of her power, her magic. Her thumbs attract the eyesight of every passerby, but Sissy does not mind. She has two, large, overgrown thumbs that look more like plump digits than a thumb. What makes her endeavor so successful as a woman, is what every hitchhiker needs: the thumbs. Unlike others, Sissy hitchhikes to move, not setting her sights on a certain destination. Sissy is a hitchhiker, just barely beating out the beatnik era. Our protagonist, Sissy Hankshaw, is in her own world, separate from the problems around her, but still finds herself in the middle of it all.

Woman can vote, talk, own property, but they still are not the same as a man.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, by Tom Robinson, is set in a time of an upcoming gender revolution.

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