Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn. By James Mueller. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 260. $29.95.)

Word of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on 25 June 1876, reached most Americans right after the republic marked the one hundredth anniversary ...