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Elizabeth Bacon Custer
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Harper & Brothers
Language
English
Pages
312

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Table of Contents

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 house at Fort Lincoln
Incidents of every-day 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 the Missouri
Curious characters and excursionists among us
Religious services : leave of absence
A winter's journey across the Plains
Our life's last journey.

Edition Notes

Another edition published 1885 without portrait and map.

Title page included in pagination.

Includes appendix: "The Yellowstone Expedition of 1873: Extracts from Letters written by General Custer to his Wife during the Expedition of the Yellowstone in 1873." (p. 271-312).

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

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New York
Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature, Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
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Boots and saddles, Life in Dakota with General Custer

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1 online resource (312 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates)
Number of pages
312

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Open Library
OL44681589M
OCLC/WorldCat
1125460574

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