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Tenting on the Plains, Or General Custer in Kansas and Texas, by Elizabeth B. Custer ...
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Tenting on the Plains Or General Custer in Kansas and Texas.(1887) (Illustrated)
Author: Elizabeth B. CusterPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781532970368
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Languages : en
Pages : 278
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books give you the best possible editions of novels, including all the original illustrations, useful and informative introductions Elizabeth Clift Bacon Custer (April 8, 1842 - April 4, 1933) was the wife of General George Armstrong Custer. She spent most of their marriage in relatively close proximity to him despite his numerous military campaigns as a commanding officer in the United States Cavalry. After his death, she became an outspoken advocate for her husband's legacy through her popular books and lectures. Largely as a result of her endless campaigning on his behalf, Custer's iconic portrayal as the gallant fallen hero amid the glory of 'Custer's Last Stand' was a canon of American history for almost a century after his death. Elizabeth "Libbie" Bacon was born in Monroe, Michigan, in 1842, the daughter of a wealthy and influential judge. Tragedy marked much of her childhood, with her three siblings and mother all dying before Elizabeth's thirteenth year. As the only one of the judge's children that would live to adulthood, her father doted on her. Elizabeth was both beautiful and intelligent, graduating from a girls' seminary in June 1862 at the head of her class. Her father hoped she would make a good marriage with a man from her own elevated social status, and she rejected several suitors. She met her future husband in fall 1862, in the midst of the American Civil War. Custer later wrote that he fell deeply in love as of their first formal meeting. She eventually returned these feelings, but her father refused to allow Custer into the Bacon home or to permit her to meet Custer outside of it, much less get married, as Custer proposed in the final week of 1862. Custer was from a poor, undistinguished family, and the Judge hoped Libbie would have better than the life of an army wife. After Custer, just prior to the Battle of Gettysburg (where he played a significant role), was promoted to Brevet Brigadier General, Judge Bacon finally relented and they were married on February 9, 1864.
Tenting on the Plains
Author: Elizabeth Bacon CusterPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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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.
Tenting on the Plains
Author: Elizabeth Bacon CusterPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781463523114
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
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Tenting on the Plains, or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas. Authored by Elizabeth B. Custer
TENTING ON THE PLAINS OR GENER
Author: Elizabeth Bacon 1842-1933 CusterPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781363485932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Tenting on the Plains
Author: Elizabeth Bacon CusterPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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TENTING ON THE PLAINS
Author: ELIZABETH B. CUSTERPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033494783
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Tenting on the Plains; Or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas
Author: Elizabeth Bacon CusterPublisher: New York : C.L. Webster
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Tenting on the Plains, or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas (1887)
Tenting on the Plains
Author: Elizabeth B. CusterPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331818864
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Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Excerpt from Tenting on the Plains: Or General Custer in Kansas and Texas Letters Home - Extracts - Caught by a Norther - Longing for a Yankee wood-pile - Colonel Groome of 1812 Jack Rucker Beaten in a horse-race - Ginnie and her Family - Our Father Custer's Dog. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Tenting on the Plains
Author: Elizabeth Bacon CusterPublisher: Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN: 1582180512
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
In an account as colorful today as when it first appeared over a century ago, "Tenting on the Plains" is Libby Custer's memoir of the hardships during her husband's 1865 military march from Alexandria, Louisiana, to Hempstead, Texas.