"SON OF THE MORNING STAR" is a great book, a study of George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn  by a tremendous writer, Evan Connell; who wrote the great American novels, MR. BRIDGE and MRS. BRIDGE. George Armstrong Custer SON OF THE MORNING STAR,  is magnificent in its writing, its fairness to Custer and its depiction of the  battle of the Little Big Horn. The depiction is brutal, one of the fascinating tidbits presented to the reader is this,  many of the men of the 7th, Custer's Regiment, surrounded by legions of Sioux and Cheyenne dog soldiers,  KILLED THEMSELVES. The Native Americans were led by the very able field commander, Crazy Horse. When the relief column finally came up to the Rosebud and upon the battle field; they found many of the men of the 7th  had saved the last bullet for themselves and rather than be taken alive, had placed their guns in their mouths and pulled  the triggers. Such was frontie...