Do You like book The Return Of Little Big Man (2000)?
Inspired by but not quite by Flashman insofar our protagonist is again a ringside viewer of some significant events of his epoch but is more honourable. Paints a evocative picture of ante-bellum American West and gives a penetrating, incisive view of figures like Sitting Bull, Bat Masterton, Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, Annie Oakley and the Earp brothers, not to mention Queen Victoria and Bertie the Bounder, while going a fair way in depicting the mentality of Americans - white and native - of the period and their ways of Europe, Interesting read overall but a tad too long..
—Vikas Datta
Following on from 'Little Big Man', Jack Crabb continues the story of his amazing life but not before faking his own death to get out of his publishing contract. The story begins where 'Little Big Man' finished, having survived the battle of Little Bighorn and spending some time with his Cheyenne family he heads into the West to find his next adventure where again he meets various historical figures such as The Earp Brothers, Bat Masterton, Wild Bill Hickok and Annie Oakley and becomes part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and meets Sitting Bull, a war chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux tribe.'The Return of Little Big Man' is an excellent read which I enjoyed, I loved reading about Jack's many encounters and his capacity for survival, the reason for this he claims is because he is not a 'thinker'. Jack is older in 'The Return of Little Big Man' and wiser, and still in some ways trying to find his place in the world, he thinks of himself as a white man and a Cheyenne Indian, because he has experienced both ways of lives, he uses this to his advantage. Thomas Berger has created a character in Jack Crabb who is realistic and somewhat fantastical too, Jack is fictional but you cannot help wishing that he was a real person because Jack is definitely a memorable individual.The ending is left open with the promise of more stories from Jack.A well written,memorable book with the one and only Mr Jack Crabb, also known as Little Big Man.
—Paula
The Return of Little Big Man - Thomas Berger. Little Big Man is one of my father's favorite books, and somehow I have never read it. When I grabbed this book, I did not make the connection, but this is the sequel. It is a fictional account of the life of the only white survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn. Jack meets one famous person after another, from Buffalo Bill to young Winston Churchill, and everyone in between. Kind of like Forrest Gump meets the wild west. Strangely, with all these famous events happening around him, I got caught up in the on-going worry if he would EVER pay Wild Bill's widow back. I cannot decide if I liked it or not.
—Dan
