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       Elizabeth Bacon Custer

      Defending General Custer’s Legacy: Complete Illustrated Trilogy

       Boots and Saddles, Tenting on the Plains, Following the Guidon

       Illustrator: Albert Berghaus

      Madison & Adams Press, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066059743

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       Boots and Saddles: Life in Dakota with General Custer

       Tenting on the Plains: General Custer in Kansas and Texas

       Following the Guidon

      Boots and Saddles: Life in Dakota with General Custer

       Table of Contents

       Preface

       Chapter I. Change of Station.

       Chapter II. A Blizzard.

       Chapter III. Western Hospitality.

       Chapter IV. Cavalry on the March.

       Chapter V. Camping Among the Sioux.

       Chapter VI. A Visit to the Village of “Two Bears.”

       Chapter VII. Adventures During the Last Days of the March.

       Chapter VIII. Separation and Reunion.

       Chapter IX. Our New Home at Fort Lincoln.

       Chapter X. Incidents of Every-day Life.

       Chapter XI. The Burning of Our Quarters.—Carrying the Mail.

       Chapter XII. Perplexities and Pleasures of Domestic Life.

       Chapter XIII. A “Strong Heart” Dance!

       Chapter XIV. Garrison Life.

       Chapter XV. General Custer’s Literary Work.

       Chapter XVI. Indian Depredations.

       Chapter XVII. A Day of Anxiety and Terror.

       Chapter XVIII. Improvements at the Post, and Gardening.

       Chapter XIX. General Custer’s Library.

       Chapter XX. The Summer of the Black Hills Expedition.

       Chapter XXI. Domestic Trials.

       Chapter XXII. Capture and Escape of Rain-in-the-face.

       Chapter XXIII. Garrison Amusements.

       Chapter XXIV. An Indian Council.

       Chapter XXV. Breaking Up of the Missouri.

       Chapter XXVI. Curious Characters and Excursionists Among Us.

       Chapter XXVII. Religious Services.—Leave of Absence.

       Chapter XXVIII. A Winter’s Journey Across the Plains.

       Chapter XXIX. Our Life’s Last Chapter.

       Appendix.

       The Yellowstone Expedition of 1873.

       Letters from the Black Hills, 1874.

       Letters from the Yellowstone, 1876.

      G. A. Custer.

      Dedicated

       TO

       MY HUSBAND

       THE ECHO OF WHOSE VOICE HAS BEEN MY INSPIRATION

      PREFACE

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      One of the motives that have actuated me in recalling these simple annals of our daily life, has been to give a glimpse to civilians of garrison and camp life—about which they seem to have such a very imperfect knowledge.

      This ignorance exists especially with reference to anything pertaining to the cavalry, which is almost invariably stationed on the extreme frontier.

      The

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