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After the intense and bloody Civil War, Elizabeth and George Armstrong Custer were stationed in Texas, Louisiana, and Kansas. Faced with flash floods, scorpions, wild animals, and Native Americans of uncertain disposition, Elizabeth recounts the reconstruction era of the South and the plains wars with the Native Americans, and the dangerous life of an army officer's wife.
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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...
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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...