Tenting on the Plains Or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas |
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Author:
| Custer, Elizabeth B. |
Foreword by:
| Leckie, Shirley A. |
Series title: | The Western Frontier Library Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8061-2668-5 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1994 |
Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.