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Little Big Man by Thomas Berger7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() “It is of course unlikely that one man would have experienced even a third of Mr. The fictional editor responsible for getting Little Big Man’s memoir into print put it this way: Much like the fictional Forrest Gump would do in his own part of the country decades later via novel and film, Jack was everywhere out West where anything of consequence seemed to be happening, including the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Despite dying at 34 years of age before he could complete his memoir, Crabb tells of his experiences and/or friendships with the likes of George Armstrong Custer, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Wyatt Earp, and others. The novel’s main character, Jack Crabb, is the Forrest Gump of the second half of the nineteenth century. ![]() But coincidentally, this second reading of the book coincided almost perfectly with the fiftieth anniversary of the first time I read it - and it turned out to be as entertaining as ever. I only discovered Thomas Berger’s 1964 novel Little Big Man after watching its 1970 movie version starring Dustin Hoffman in the title role. ![]()
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