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Tenting on the plains, or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas

Title: Tenting on the plains, or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas / Elizabeth Bacon Custer, with an introduction by Jane R. Stewart.
Author: Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933.
Publication: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1971]

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Additional Authors

Stewart, Jane R.

Description

3 volumes (xxxiii, 706 pages (pages 703-706 advertisement)) illustrations; 20 cm.

Summary

Elizabeth Custer chronicles the journey with her legendary husband, General George A. Custer, from the time of his leaving the Army of the Potomac, through Texas, New Orleans, and to the western frontier. Her descriptions of the daily rigors of travel, survival, and the people encountered, have become classic historical literature'and in this case, enlivened by the perceptive eye and mind of a woman who, in her own right, became a heroine of the time.

Series Statement

The Western frontier library, v. 46-48

Uniform Title

Western frontier library ; v. 46-48.

Alternative Title

Tenting on the plains
General Custer in Kansas and Texas

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
History

Note

Reprint of the 1887 ed., with new introd.

Contents

Volume 1. Good-by to the Army of the Potomac -- off to Texas -- twenty minutes for dinner -- history of Eliza -- down the Mississippi -- a crevasse -- General Custer meeting Confederate General Hood -- New Orleans after the war -- General Winfield Scott -- up Red River -- the skill of the pilots -- our romantic lover -- at Alexandria -- a Negro prayer-meeting -- Confederate forts -- quicksands -- alligator hunting -- Mutiny -- trial by court martial -- a military execution -- marching through Texas -- forging for a bed -- joy over a pillow -- every man has his price -- four months in a wagon -- life without a looking glass -- Marches through pine forests -- officers attacked with break-bone fever -- promises of bold-flowing streams -- introduction to the pine-tree rattle-snake -- scorpions, tarantulas, centipedes, chiggers, and seed-ticks -- crossing the Ponton -- "I went a-fishing" -- Out of the wilderness -- our camp at Hempstead -- hospitality of southern planters -- the general's deer-hunting -- a baptism of gore -- escape from being blown up by powder -- Eliza establishes an orphan asylum -- the protecting care that offers show to women -- Texas norther -- a school-girl's first impression of Texas -- the ants as our thriving neighbors -- General Custer III of break-bone fever -- measuring an alligator -- the march to Austin -- chasing jack-rabbits -- Byron, the greyhound -- Byron as a thief -- an equestrian dude -- Mexican horse equipage and blankets -- General Custer visits a deaf and dumb asylum -- tales of lawlessness -- pistols everywhere -- entertainments at our quarters -- Eliza's colored ball.
Volume 2. Letters home -- extracts -- caught by a norther -- longing for a Yankee wood-pile -- Colonel Groome of 1812 -- Jack Rucker beaten in a horse-race -- Ginnie and her family -- Our father Custer's dog -- Disturbed condition of Texas -- a woman's horse education at the stables -- leaving Austin for Hempstead -- Sam Houston a hero among our officers -- detention in Galveston -- a Texas norther on the Gulf of Mexico -- narrow escape from shipwreck -- return home on a Mississippi steamer -- Father Custer gives an account of how he was a boy with his boys on the Mississippi River -- a family robbery -- General Custer parts with his staff at Cairo and Detroit -- the silent heroes -- temptations to induce General Custer to resign -- offers from Mexico -- one of his class-mates enters the ministry -- Reception by war veterans of their boy general -- appointed lieutenant-colonel of the seventh cavalry -- a raid after a pretty girl -- our family of horses and dogs -- orders to report at Fort Riley, Kansas -- jollifications at St. Louis -- friendship for Lawrence Barrett -- Good-by to civilization -- westward ho! -- the prairie-schooner as we first saw it -- a few comments on the wisdom of the army mule -- the wagon-master and mule-whacker as types of western eccentricity -- carrying supplies to distant posts -- first overland journey in an army ambulance -- arrival at Fort Riley -- border warfare between quarrelsome dogs -- the hospitality of officers and their families -- welcome and housed by one of General Custer's old friends -- changing of quarters according to army regulations -- preparing a new-comer for his call on the commanding officer's family -- the new arrival presents himself in very full dress -- Diana's horse tells tales-General Custer takes his dogs and gives run to his horse over the plains -- his horses commune with him after their dumb fashion -- the strength of his arm reserved for the country -- separated from the post by the prairie divides -- we trade horses -- Phil Sheridan tested on a race-track -- fighting dissipation in the seventh cavalry -- General Custer's temptations -- the family teach him to appreciate his sunburned nose -- men who command the admiration of women -- the indestructibility of an army demijohn -- "Good society" -- an embarrassing position for an officer -- the general extricates him -- a mock trial -- varieties of character -- lessons in horsemanship -- a disgraced cavalry woman -- gossip -- a medley of officers and men -- war on a dressing-gown -- Ristori, and the course of true love -- a proposal on the housetop -- Gideon's band -- a letter from Charles C. Leland -- Breitmann in Kansas -- clever rogues escape from the guard-house -- marketing in Junction City -- crossing a swollen river -- the story of Johnnie -- an expedition leaves Fort Riley for a campaign.
Volume 3. A prairie fire -- letters from the general -- lending a dog for a bedfellow -- beauty's bows and beaux -- Negro recruits turn the post into a circus -- ladies fired on by a sentinel -- the sugar mutiny -- small-pox in the garrison -- General Gibbs restores order -- an earthquake at Fort Riley -- Extracts from General Custer's letters -- the march from Fort Riley to Fort Harker -- dogs and horses on their first western campaign -- experiences in messing in a country void of supplies -- chasing jack-rabbits -- Extracts from letters to General Custer -- crossing Fox River -- account of the undisciplined troops -- war's alarms -- mourning for Curtis Lee -- Gratitude -- a great snow-storm -- the Sibley tent -- General Custer defines his ambition -- the cook devises strange additions to the bill of fare -- General Hancock holds a council with the chiefs of the Cheyennes -- the Indian nobility request that their supper be served before the talk -- the pipe of peace -- a hint for further refreshments -- General Custer visits the villages of Sioux, Apaches and Cheyennes -- a deputation of three hundred warriors and chiefs in battle line -- the general's description of them -- civilized and barbarous warfare confronting each other -- flight of the Indians -- General Custer and his regiment are sent in pursuit -- extracts from General Custer's letters written from Fort Larned -- Extracts from General Custer's letters from Fort Hays and Fort Wallace -- an account of killing his first buffalo-calf -- the death of Curtis Lee -- extract from a letter written by General Hancock on the Indian depredations -- riding to meet the mail -- the doctor eats Indian soup in the village -- some items regarding a match buffalo-hunt -- Sacrifices and self-denial of pioneer duty -- poor water and alkaline dust -- vagaries of western water-ways -- digging in sunken stream-beds for water -- rivers unfringed by trees or shrubs -- the alluring mirage -- a short tribute to the western pioneers -- their endurance, patience and courage -- the governor of a western territory shines as a cook as well as a statesman -- the general writes of his first buffalo-hunt -- an accidental discharge of his pistol kills my horse, Curtis Lee -- General Sherman as a special providence -- the western town on a move -- government makes no provision for army women to say their prayers -- journey to Fort Hays -- the match hunt of the regiment -- supper given by the vanquished to the victors -- reception given by the elements on our arrival -- the tent goes down -- a scout to Fort McPherson -- a sentinel fires on his friends by mistake -- General Custer sends escort to take us to his camp -- Captain Robbins and Colonel Cook attacked, and fight for three hours -- Encamped on Big Creek -- preparation for storm -- a flood at Fort Hays -- Kansas lightning -- solicitude about a clothes-line -- women to the rescue -- men saved from drowning -- a new kind of ferry-boat -- gatling guns an anchors -- ghastly lights -- Eliza's narrative -- Flor McFlimsey on the frontier -- the retreat to a prairie divide -- Ordered back to Fort Harker -- a drunken escort -- wild-flowers -- color without odor -- game -- wild horses -- a dromedary on the plains -- a woman pioneering -- a riddled stage -- our bed running away -- cholera -- a contrast -- reckoning -- chances of promotion -- the addled mail-carrier -- The first fight of the seventh cavalry -- reinforcements of black troops -- a Negro's manoeuvre -- a unique official report -- peculiar fortifications -- Indian attack on a stage -- a desperate running fight -- a plucky woman -- cholera at Fort Wallace -- return of the seventh there -- swindling contractors -- desertions -- an ingenious prison -- Fort Wallace attacked -- a brave and skillful sergeant -- the worst days of the seventh -- no letters -- General Custer's march to Fort Harker for supplies -- a day at Fort Riley -- happiness at last.

ISBN

0806109432
9780806109435

LCCN

72145498

OCLC

ocm00209249
209249
SCSB-580515

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library