Boots and Saddles: Life in Dakota with General Custer (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Life in Dakota with General Custer

by Elizabeth B. Custer, Barbara Handy-Marchello

Overview

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.

In 1885, Elizabeth ("Libbie") Custer published her memoir about her marriage to General George Armstrong Custer, the most controversial military officer of the nineteenth century. Set at Fort Lincoln, Dakota Territory, Boots and Saddles offers a singular historical view of the frontier West and the Plains Wars. Women who followed the army endured both boredom and danger, and Boots and Saddles could have aptly been subtitled "Elite Homemaking in the Far West."

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411467224
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	370,199
File size:	993 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Bacon Custer was born on April 8, 1842, in Monroe, Michigan. Around 1862, when she graduated from boarding school as valedictorian, she met the handsome war hero George Armstrong Custer. She married Custer on February 9, 1864. She died in 1933, outliving her husband by 57 years, most of which was spent burnishing his public image.