Boots and Saddles: Life in Dakota with General Custer (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Life in Dakota with General Custer

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 danger, and Boots and Saddles could have aptl...