Boots and Saddles Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer

Boots and Saddles Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer

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Publisher's Synopsis

The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting the pattern of her future life. From that time on, she accompanied General Custer on all of his major assignments, aside from the summer Indian campaigns - ""the only woman,"" she said, ""who always rode with the regiment.""

Her story, told by herself, is an absorbing adventure. Moreover, there is a added bonus - a gentle, loving portrait of George Armstrong Custer, husband and man, by the person who knew him best, his wife. Her absolute devotion to him is revealed in every line of her account, which ends, appropriately enough, with the day on which she received the news of the disaster at the Little Big Horn.

Book information

ISBN: 9780806111926
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 306
Weight: 304g
Height: 190mm
Width: 121mm
Spine width: 19mm