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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth B. Custer , Louise BarnettPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: Bison Books Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.373kg ISBN: 9780803234567ISBN 10: 0803234562 Pages: 342 Publication Date: 01 December 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsI. Change of Station; II. A Blizzard; III. Western Hospitality; IV. Cavalry on the March; V. Camping among the Sioux; VI. A Visit to the Village of Two Bears ; VII. Adventure during the Last Days of March; VIII. Separation and Reunion; IX. Our New Home at Fort Lincoln; X. Incidents of Every-day Live; XI. The Burning of Our Quarters.--Carrying the Mail; XII. Perplexities and Pleasures of Domestic Life; XIII. A Strong Heart Dance!; XIV. Garrison Life; XV. General Custer's Literary Work; XVI. Indian Depredations; XVII. A Day of Anxiety and Terror; XVIII. Improvements at the Post, and Gardening; XIX. General Custer's Library; XX. The Summer of the Black Hills Expedition; XXI. Domestic Trials; XXII. Capture and Escape of Rain-in-the-Face; XXIII. Garrison Amusements; XXIV. An Indian Council; XXV. Breaking Up of the Missouri; XXVI. Curious Characters and Excursionists among Us; XXVII. Religious Services.--Leave of Absence; XXVIII. A Winter's Journey across the Plains; XXIX. Our Life's Last Chapter Appendix: With Extracts of General Custer's LettersReviewsThis is a warmly human, first-hand account of the hardships, disappointments, fun and flattery, joys, and heartaches of women who accompanied their military husbands across the sage, up turbulent rivers, over the badlands of Dakota into the far reaches of the Western frontier, during the Indian troubles of the mid-1870s. -Montana: The Magazine of Western History Montana: The Magazine of Western History “This is a warmly human, first-hand account of the hardships, disappointments, fun and flattery, joys, and heartaches of women who accompanied their military husbands across the sage, up turbulent rivers, over the badlands of Dakota into the far reaches of the Western frontier, during the Indian troubles of the mid-1870s.”—Montana: The Magazine of Western History This is a warmly human, first-hand account of the hardships, disappointments, fun and flattery, joys, and heartaches of women who accompanied their military husbands across the sage, up turbulent rivers, over the badlands of Dakota into the far reaches of the Western frontier, during the Indian troubles of the mid-1870s. -Montana: The Magazine of Western History Author InformationLouise Barnett is a professor of American studies at Rutgers University and the author of numerous books, including Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer, available in a Bison Books edition, and Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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