Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Boots and Saddles
(Illustrated Edition)
Life in Dakota with General Custer
Madison & Adams Press, 2020
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Table of Contents
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 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 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.
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
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 isolation of the cavalry posts makes them quite inaccessible to travellers, and the exposure incident to meeting warlike Indians does not tempt the visits of friends or even of the venturesome tourist. Our life, therefore, was often as separate from the rest of the world as if we had been living on an island in the ocean.
Very little has been written regarding the domestic life of an army family, and yet I cannot believe that it is without interest; for the innumerable questions that are asked about our occupations, amusements, and mode of house-keeping, lead me to hope that the actual answers to these queries contained in this little story will be acceptable. This must also be my apology for entering in some instances so minutely into trifling perplexities and events, which went to fill up the sum of our existence.
E. B. C.
148 East 18th Street, New York City.
OUTLINE MAP
of portions of MONTANA & DAKOTA
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