Description: "Boots and Saddles," or, Life in Dakota with General Custer. By Elizabeth B. Custer. 1st Edition (1885 on both title and copyright page), 2nd issue, with both frontis and map. Published by Harper & Brothers of New York. The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting the pattern of her future life. From that time on, she accompanied General Custer on all of his major assignments, aside from the summer Indian campaigns—"the only woman," she said, "who always rode with the regiment."Her story, told by herself, is an absorbing adventure. Moreover, there is a added bonus—a gentle, loving portrait of George Armstrong Custer, husband and man, by the person who knew him best, his wife. Her absolute devotion to him is revealed in every line of her account, which ends, appropriately enough, with the day on which she received the news of the disaster at the Little Big Horn. Condition: Sound binding. Rubbing to top and bottom of spine. Light rubbing to board tips, spine edges and board extremities. Inscription in antique ink dated 1885 on front free endpaper. Period brown endpapers are whole with NO splitting over the hinges. Book has a slight lean to it as pictured above. Text is tight, whole and clean. 5" x 7 3/4" with 312 pages.
Price: 100 USD
Location: Westbrook, Connecticut
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Elizabeth B. Custer
Topic: Indian Wars
Subject: Military & War
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1885
