Description: First edition, Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1887. Professionally rebound. Approximate 2" tear in front cover board, FFEP, and 2 fly leaves. Rubbing to extremities. Slightly shelf-cocked. Tissue protected frontispiece of Custer. Black and white sketches throughout. Sound binding, clean pages. From the time of her husband’s death at the Battle of the Little Big Horn until her own death fifty-seven years later, at the age of ninety, Mrs. George Armstrong Custer devoted herself to defending or embellishing her husband’s reputation.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 on the frontier during this major period of Indian unrest.
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Brand: General Custer
Color: Brown
Year Printed: 1887
Language: English
Subject: Military & War
Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Company
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Region: North America
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Elizabeth B Custer
Topic: Indian Wars
Place of Publication: New York
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
condition: 3000
