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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 / by Elizabeth Bacon Custer ; with an introduction by Jane R. Stewart ; foreword by Shirley A. Leckie.
Author: Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933.
Publication: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

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Description

xxxiv, 403 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm

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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

General Custer in Kansas and Texas.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.
History.

Note

"First published in 1895 by Harper & brothers."

Contents

Good-by to the Army of the Potomac -- New Orleans after the war -- A military execution -- Marches through pine forests -- Out of the wilderness -- A Texas norther -- Life in a Texas town -- Letters home -- Disturbed condition of Texas -- General Custer parts with his staff at Cairo and Detroit -- Order to report at Fort Riley, Kansas -- Westward ho!: fighting dissipation in the Seventh Cavalry: General Custer's temptations -- A medley of officers and men -- The course of true love -- A prairie fire -- Sacrifices and self-denial of pioneer duty: Captain Robbins and Colonel Cook attacked, and fight for three hours -- A flood at Fort Hays -- Ordered back to Fort Harker -- The first fight of the Seventh Cavalry.

ISBN

080612668X
9780806126685

LCCN

94011743

OCLC

ocm30074979
30074979
SCSB-2033921

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library