Boots and saddles : or, Life in Dakota with General Custer / by Elizabeth B. Custer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Dakota Territory.

Frontier and pioneer life.

United States. Army--Military life.

United States.

Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876.

Custer, George A.

Physical Description:

284 p.

Other Title:

Life in Dakota with General Custer

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Narrative Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1 CHANGE OF STATION

CHAPTER 2 A BLIZZARD

CHAPTER 3 WESTERN HOSPITALITY

CHAPTER 4 CAVALRY ON THE MARCH

CHAPTER 5 CAMPING AMONG THE SIOUX

CHAPTER 6 A VISIT TO THE VILLAGE OF TWO BEARS

CHAPTER 7 ADVENTURES DURING THE LAST DAYS OF THE MARCH

CHAPTER 8 SEPARATION AND REUNION

CHAPTER 9 OUR NEW HOME AT FORT LINCOLN

CHAPTER 10 INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE

CHAPTER 11 THE BURNING OF OUR QUARTERS - CARRYING THE MAIL

CHAPTER 12 PERPLEXITIES AND PLEASURES OF DOMESTIC LIFE

CHAPTER 13 A "STRONG HEART" DANCE

CHAPTER 14 GARRISON LIFE

CHAPTER 15 GENERAL CUSTER'S LITERARY WORK

CHAPTER 16 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS

CHAPTER 17 A DAY OF ANXIETY AND TERROR

CHAPTER 18 IMPROVEMENTS AT THE POST AND GARDENING

CHAPTER 19 GENERAL CUSTER'S LIBRARY

CHAPTER 20 THE SUMMER OF THE BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION

CHAPTER 21 DOMESTIC TRIALS

CHAPTER 22 CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF RAIN- IN- THE- FACE

CHAPTER 23 GARRISON AMUSEMENTS

CHAPTER 24 AN INDIAN COUNCIL

CHAPTER 25 BREAKING UP OF THE MISSOURI

CHAPTER 26 CURIOUS CHARACTERS AND EXCURSIONISTS AMONG US

CHAPTER 27 RELIGIOUS SERVICES- LEAVE OF ABSENCE

CHAPTER 28 A WINTER'S JOURNEY ACROSS THE PLAINS

CHAPTER 29 OUR LIFE'S LAST CHAPTER

APPENDIX Extracts from Letters Written by General Custer to his Wife During the Expedition to the Yellowstone in 1873.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph