Boots and Saddles

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The illustration of the husband of the author, General George Armstrong Custer is admiring, his brilliance, his love for pets and he had many dogs in his post. She lists with deep views, the many people, from Indian scouts, to recruited men, to soldier’s wives, who form the family of armies on the post.

The chapters include Dedication, Preface, Change of Station; A Blizzard; Western Hospitality; Cavalry on the March; Camping Among the Sioux; A Visit to the Village of Two Bears; Adventures During the Last Days of the March; Separation and Reunion; Our New Home at Fort Lincoln; Incidents of Everyday Life; The Burning of Our Quarters; Carrying the Mail; Perplexities and Pleasures of Domestic Life; A “Strong Heart” Dance; Garrison Life; General Custer’s Literary Work; Indian Depredations; A Day of Anxiety and Terror; Improvements at the Post, and Gardening; General Custer’s Library; The Summer of the Black Hills Expedition; Domestic Trials; Capture and Escape of Rain-in-the-Face; Garrison Amusements; An Indian Council; Breaking Up of the Missouri; Curious Characters and Excursionists Among Us; Religious Services; Leave of Absence; A Winter’s Journey Across the Plain; Our Life’s Last Chapter.

Elizabeth Clift Bacon Custer was a writer and public speaker, and the wife of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, United States Army. She had her days of their marriage in rather closeness to him in spite of his many military campaigns in the American Civil War and afterwards posting on the Great Plains as a commanding officer in the United States Cavalry.

She was left almost penniless after her husband died, she became a forthright advocate for his bequest through her famous books and discussions. Widely as an outcome of her years of campaigning for her late husband, her symbolic representation as the chivalrous hero in the triumph of Custer’s Last Stand was a tenet of the history of America for about a hundred years after he died.
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