Tenting on the plains;

Description

Main Author

Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933

Language(s)

English

Published

New York, C. L. Webster and company, 1889.

Subjects

Custer, George A. > Custer, George A. / (George Armstrong), > Custer, George A. / (George Armstrong), / 1839-1876
United States. > United States. / Army > United States. / Army / Military life.
Frontier and pioneer life > Frontier and pioneer life / West (U.S.)

Summary

From the time of her husband's death at the Battle of the Little Big Horn until her own death fifty-seven years later, at the age of ninety, Mrs. George Armstrong Custer devoted herself to defending or embellishing her husband's reputation. This account, the second in Elizabeth's trilogy of her life with the General, focuses on the period immediately following the Civil War, when the Custers were stationed in Louisiana, Texas, and Kansas. She portrays the aftermath of the Civil War in Texas and life in Kansas while her husband took part in General Winfield Hancock's 1867 expedition against the Indians between the Arkansas and Platte rivers. Throughout, she provides detailed descriptions of an army officer's home life on the frontier during this major period of Indian unrest.

Physical Description

xii p., 2 l., 702 p. front. (port.) illus. (incl. maps) 24 cm.

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