"Boots and Saddles" or Life in Dakota with General Custer. Elizabeth B. Custer

"Boots and Saddles" or Life in Dakota with General Custer.

Author	Elizabeth B. Custer
Publisher	Norman: Univ. Oklahoma Press, 1987
Edition
Weight	350 gram
CF
Keywords	B�ch, Custer, Yellowstone, Dakota, Montana, Badlands, Black Hills, Indians, Native Americans, Little Big Horn, Army, USA, cavalry, Wild West
Booknumber	20714
Category's	Travel & Geography (North America) History & Archaeology (North America) History & Archaeology (19th Century) Culture History (Military) Travel & Geography (19th Century)
8-vo (12,5 x 19 cm). Pp. xxx, 276. Pictorial soft cover. Published as Volume 17 in "The Western Frontier Library". With an introduction by Jane R. Stewart. The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George 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. The widow of General Custer tells her story of life in a frontier garrison in the midst of Indian perils and alarms. The central character is of course George Custer, but far more interesting, the account provides a lot of details of life in an isolated cavalry post on the extreme western frontier amid warlike Indians. �Our life was often as separate from the rest of the world as if we had been living on an island in the ocean." The account ends with the day on which she received the news of the disaster at the Little Big Horn, where both Custer and his brother died. With a woodengraved portrait of Custer, a photograph of his widow (and another one of her on the front cover), a photograph of the couple in the general's study and a map of Montana and Dakota. Ex Bibliotheca Boudewijn B�ch met zijn annotatie "Rapid City SD 21 V 1994". Excellent copy.
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