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The host introduces Michael Punke, stating 'We're visiting with Michael Pump, who wrote The Revenant' and discussing his forthcoming book. This is explicitly identified as Punke's book.

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Discussion of a Crow scout named Curly and details about Custer's battle. Steve mentions 'according to Son of the Morning Star, I think some of his brain matters splattered on an officer.' This appears to be a book about Custer's Last Stand.

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Steve discusses a series 'where like novelists would write these I was famous Americans and Larry McMurtry... He wrote the Crazy Horse one, which is very short' and describes McMurtry as 'most famous. He wrote Lonesome Dove.' This is identified as a biographical novel about Crazy Horse.

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Multiple references throughout. First mentioned as Larry McMurtry's most famous work. Later, Punke says 'my favorite, uh novel of all time is is Lonesome by by Larry McMurtry, which people have probably read' and describes it as 'about the first ever cattle drive from Texas to Montana.'

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Punke discusses his research: 'George Bird Grinnell... in nineteen fifteen he wrote a book called The Fighting Cheyenne, and as part of his research in nineteen fifteen, he interviews a Cheyenne warrior named white Elk who had been at the at the Fetterman Fight.'

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The main subject of the podcast interview. Introduced early as Punke's 'forthcoming book' which is 'now' available. The entire interview discusses this book about the Fetterman Fight of 1866. Punke describes it as his 'second novel.'