Tenting on the Plains: Or General Custer in Kansas and Texas (Volume 46) (The Western Frontier Library Series)
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From the time of her husbands 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 husbands reputation. This account the second in Elizabeths 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 Hancocks 1867 expedition against the Indians between the Arkansas and Platte rivers. Throughout she provides detailed descriptions of an army officers home life on the frontier during this major period of Indian unrest. This edition an abridgment of the original 1887 edition with an Introduction by Jane R. Stewart and a Foreword by Shirley A. Leckie brings together in a single volume one of the most significant documents of the Old West here made accessible to a new generation of readers.
