Greasy Grass, Johnny D. Boggs
Greasy Grass, Johnny D. Boggs
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Greasy Grass
A Story of the Little Bighorn

Author: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrator: Traber Burns, Tanya Eby, Michael Kramer, Johnny Heller, Donald Corren, Eric G. Dove, Jim Meskimen, Sam Osheroff, Lloyd James, Chris Abell, various narrators

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2018


Synopsis

Johnny D. Boggs turns the battlefield itself into a character in this historical retelling of Custer’s Last Stand, when George Custer led most of his command to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in southern Montana in 1876.More than forty first-person narratives are used—Indian and white, military and civilian, men and women—to paint a panorama of the battle itself.Boggs brings the events and personalities of the Battle of the Little Bighorn to life in a series of first-hand accounts.

About Johnny D. Boggs

Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, been bucked off horses, shot rapids in a canoe, hiked across mountains and deserts, traipsed around ghost towns, and spent hours poring over microfilm in library archives—all in the name of finding a good story. He has won nine Spur Awards, making him the all-time leader in Western Writers of America’s history.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

About Tanya Eby

Tanya Eby is a novelist and an audiobook narrator who has earned several AudioFile Earphones Awards and been nominated for the Audie Award. She has a BA degree in English language and literature and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine.

About Michael Kramer

Michael Kramer is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, and recipient of a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award. He is also an actor and director in the Washington, DC, area, where he is active in the area’s theater scene and has appeared in productions at the Shakespeare Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Theater J.

About Johnny Heller

Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine.

About Donald Corren

Donald Corren is an audiobook narrator and a New York actor with leading credits on and Off-Broadway, as well as numerous television appearances. On Broadway, he costarred with Judy Kaye in the critically acclaimed production of Souvenir, and replaced Harvey Fierstein in the seminal production of Torch Song Trilogy. His Off-Broadway appearances include The Soap Myth, Dietrich & Chevalier, The Last Sunday in June, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night, and the original New York production of Tomfoolery. His television credits include eight seasons as forensic tech Medill on NBC’s Law & Order, as well as his current role as Dr. Kurian on Syfy’s Z Nation.

About Eric G. Dove

Eric G. Dove is a multiple Earphones Award–winning narrator, and his credits include more than one hundred audiobooks. He is also an accomplished musician and a budding author, who published Ghosts of Royston in 2013. He is a graduate of Ohio State University.

About Jim Meskimen

Jim Meskimen is a stage, film, and television actor who has appeared in many well-known movies and television shows. He acted in Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon for director Ron Howard, both of which were nominated for Best Picture Oscars. His television appearances include The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Friends, Lie to Me, Criminal Minds, and Parks and Recreation. He is also a painter, award-winning audiobook narrator, and audiobook director for Galaxy Audio.

About Sam Osheroff

Read by Sam Osheroff, Chris Abell, Eddie Lopez, Grover Gardner, Jim Meskimen, Traber Burns, Nick Sullivan, Patrick Lawlor, Donald Corren, John Lescault, Johnny Heller, R. C. Bray, William Hughes, Armando Durán, and Michael Kramer

About Lloyd James

Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been a working professional actor in theater, film, television, and voice-overs for more than thirty years. He has narrated over one thousand audiobooks and won numerous Earphones Awards and nominations for the Audie Award and the Voice Arts Award. He holds a BFA degree in acting from Santa Fe University, New Mexico. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on June 24, 2024

Boggs has done an amazing job in telling the story of the Battle of Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. He does so by telling the story from the perspectives of many different participants, both American and Native American. We hear first-hand accounts by General Custer himself as well as other office......more

Goodreads review by Ken on June 14, 2019

Greasy Grass: A Story of the Little Bighorn by Johnny D. Boggs Based on personal accounts and court board of inquiries, personal letters, testimonies, family histories of participants from young Lakota women & warriors and Chief's to lowly american soldiers who were freshly arrived immigrants, to wi......more

Goodreads review by Joyce on September 17, 2018

I don't know what the reading experience is like, but listening to this book read by a full cast is an exceptional experience. Most of us are familiar with the Battle of the Little Big Horn—named for the river called the Greasy Grass in the Lakota tongue—where Custer’s ego led to the massacre of the......more

Goodreads review by Juni on May 14, 2018

Never before have I read (via audio) a book about the battles along the Little Big Horn that carried such heart-wrenching power. Quite simply, this is the most stunning work of historical fiction I've seen, and I found myself caught up in the anguish, fear, confusion, and resignation of the people J......more

Goodreads review by SamT on April 11, 2016

This is a work of fiction and the reader is told that right up front. It is an account of the Custer Massacre told in a manner that is much different from most of the "Custerology" I have read before. In forty-nine chapters, the author writes a first person account of the involvement of many of real......more


Quotes

“Boggs gives voice to all classes of soldier and Sioux, to the desperation of Custer’s command, and the determination of their foe.” Historical Novels Review

“Boggs writes from the heart, almost as if he is channeling each person.” News-Gazette (Champaign, Illinois)

“Most of us are familiar with the Battle of the Little Big Horn…Do we need another retelling? Listeners to Boggs’ version will give a resounding yes. A group of nine narrators inhabits the forty-seven characters, and their memorable performances immerse listeners in compelling first-person accounts from both the army’s and Native Americans’ points of view…The evenhanded examination of what went right and wrong on both sides and the haunting voices that tell their own tales make this engrossing western-set novel an example of historical fiction at its best.” Booklist (starred audio review)

“Boggs adds yet another perspective to this famous Old West fight…[and] he carries it off beautifully…The highlight is Boggs’ portrayals of Captain Frederick Benteen and Major Marcus Reno and their surviving cavalrymen…This novel contains no new historical scholarship, but it does effectively paint a grim, gory, and realistic image of Indian warfare, period racism, and the political scapegoating that usually occurs after a military disaster.” Publishers Weekly

“Approaches [the Battle of the Little Bighorn] as a mosaic, using some forty-seven points of view, from the famous, such as Crazy Horse and Custer’s wife, Libbie, to such minor characters as an army trumpeter and a brash Indian teen trying to count coup…An almost unbearably intense narrative…this is an enthralling book.” Booklist (starred review)


Awards

  • Booklist Top 10