Readers who have enjoyed or are going to enjoy Thomas Berger’s masterpiece "Little Big Man" and its sequel "The Return of Little Big Man" will find this book very helpful and should keep it close at hand. It is a chapter by chapter companion to Berger’s novels in which Bernd Wahlbrinck has conveniently incorporated contemporary photos, illustrations and background information for historic characters, e.g. Sitting Bull, the Earp brothers, Wild Bill Hickok, Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, etc.; for historic places, e.g. Deadwood, Tombstone; and finally, for certain objects some readers might not be familiar with, e.g. a travois or a Gatling gun. - With 99 photos, illustrations, and drawings -