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1893 "Tenting on the Plains" by Elizabeth Custer

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1893  Tenting on the Plains  by Elizabeth Custer
Offered in this lot we have "Tenting on the Plains" by Elizabeth B. Custer, 1893, publisher Charles L. Webster & Company, New York. Written by General George Armstrong Custer's wife, it provides a descriptive account of General Custer's service in Kansas and Texas from a woman's view of the early cavalry installations. From the time of her husband’s 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 husband’s reputation. This account, the second in Elizabeth’s 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 Hancock’s 1867 expedition against the Indians between the Arkansas and Platte rivers. Throughout, she provides detailed descriptions of an army officer’s home life on the frontier during this major period of Indian unrest. This tan cloth stamped illustrated textured hardcover exhibits edge scuffing and splits along spine hinge. Measure 5.25"W x 7.5"L x 1.25", weight 1lb, 2oz.