Boots and Saddles: Or Life in Dakota with General Custer (Expanded, Annotated)

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UPC:
9781791736309
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
12/15/2018
Author:
Custer, Elizabeth Bacon
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Pages:
255
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For nearly 58 years, Elizabeth Bacon Custer was probably the most famous widow in the world. In this lively, fascinating, loving portrait of life on the plains with her already-famous husband, Libbie tells a civilized audience of the excitement, fun, and perils endured at a remote frontier post.Intelligent and beautiful, Libbie was partner, confidant, and booster to the general, as well as an important figure in the social life of the posts he commanded. This book has been used as source material on the general's life as well as the frontier army for well over a century.Celebrated among the prominent people of her day, Libbie never remarried after Custer's death at the Little Bighorn in 1876. She spent the rest of her life writing and lecturing about him, burnishing his reputation and keeping his memory alive.Long a jewel of western Americana, this book continues to find and entertain new audiences in the 21st century.