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From the time of her husbands 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 husbands reputation.This account, the second in Elizabeths 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 Hancocks 1867 expedition against the Indians between the Arkansas and Platte rivers. Throughout, she provides detailed descriptions of an army officers home life on the frontier during this major period of Indian unrest.This edition, an abridgment of the original 1887 edition, with an Introduction by Jane R. Stewart and a Foreword by Shirley A. Leckie, brings together in a single volume one of the most significant documents of the Old West, here made accessible to a new generation of readers.
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Tenting On the Plains, Or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas
author
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Custer, Elizabeth Bacon.
publisher
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University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin
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080612668X
print isbn13
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9780806126685
ebook isbn13
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9780585145211
language
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English
subject
Custer, George Armstrong,--1839-1876, Custer, Elizabeth Bacon,--1842-1933, Generals--United States--Biography, United States.--Army--Biography, United States.--Army--Military life--History--19th century, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.
publication date
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1994
lcc
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F594.C986 1994eb
ddc
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973.8/1/092
subject
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Custer, George Armstrong,--1839-1876, Custer, Elizabeth Bacon,--1842-1933, Generals--United States--Biography, United States.--Army--Biography, United States.--Army--Military life--History--19th century, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.
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Tenting on the Plains
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Smoking the Pipe of Peace.
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Tenting on the Plains
or General Custer in Kansas and Texas
By Elizabeth Bacon Custer
With an Introduction by Jane R. Stewart Foreword by Shirley A. Leckie
University of Oklahoma Press Norman and London
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Dedication to Tenting on the Plains.
To him whose brave and blithe endurance made those who followed him forget, in his sunshiny presence, half the hardship and the danger.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 18421933. Tenting on the plains, or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas /by Elizabeth B. Custer ; with an introduction by Jane R. Stewart ; foreword by Shirley A. Leckie. p. cm. ISBN 0-8061-2668-X 1. Custer, George Armstrong, 18391876. 2. Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 18421933. 3. GeneralsUnited StatesBiography. 4. United States. ArmyBiography. 5. United States. ArmyMili tary lifeHistory19th century. 6. Frontier and pioneer lifeWest (U.S.) 7. West (U.S.)History18601890. I. Title. II. Title: General Custer in Kansas and Texas. F594.C986 1994 973.8'1'092dc20 [B] 9411743 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Published in 1994 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. First published in 1895 by Harper & Brothers, New York. Introduction and notes, by Jane R. Stewart, copyright 1971 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Foreword by Shirley A. Leckie copyright 1994 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First printing of the University of Oklahoma Press edition, 1994.
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Foreword
By Shirley A. Leckie
In 1971 the University of Oklahoma Press reprinted in three volumes Tenting on the Plains; Or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas, a work first published by C. L. Webster and Company in 1887. Jane R. Stewart's Introduction to this remains an invaluable source of background information on Elizabeth Bacon Custer, the author of the book, and its subject, her husband George Armstrong Custer.
Nonetheless, more than two decades have passed, and scholars have uncovered new information regarding Lieutenant Colonel Custer's life and career. Moreover, given the increased awareness of the role of women in history, scholars have a heightened appreciation for the part Elizabeth Custer played in creating her husband's heroic stature following his death. In order to make this work available in a one-volume paperback edition, the University of Oklahoma Press has reissued not the original 702-page work but the condensed 403-page book issued by the original publisher in 1893. Two years later, when Harper and Brothers acquired the rights to Tenting on the Plains, it reprinted the
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smaller version, and this paperback edition is a facsimile of that work.
In 1973 the late Minnie Dubbs Millbrook explored Custer's role in the near mutiny of volunteer troops in Louisiana in 1865. While Stewart tells us that Custer was "something of a martinet," Millbrook reveals that, less than twenty-four hours after he arrived at Alexandria, he ignited rebellion by inviting former Confederates to register their complaints against Union soldiers. Then, when men of the Second Wisconsin petitioned for removal of their commander, Lt. Col. Nicholas Dale, for allegedly rejoicing over Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Custer interpreted their actions as mutiny. Sgt. Leonard Lancaster, who spearheaded the drive, was sentenced to death by firing squad along with a deserter. Lancaster's life was spared when Custer ordered him pulled aside in the split second between "aim" and ''fire." The other soldier was executed. He was not, however, as Elizabeth claims, ''a vagabond and criminal." Instead, Millbrook found that he was eighteen-year-old William A. Wilson, an Illinois farm boy whose records at the National Archives contain no previous demerits.1
In another essay, "The West Breaks in General Custer," Millbrook examined Custer's involvement in the campaign under Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock. She discovered that his actions in the summer of 1867, including forced marches over vast prairies, made no sense except in the context of an overriding desire. Armstrong wanted his wife with him, and everything else, including obeying orders, was secondary.
Millbrook also investigated the explanations Custer gave for leaving Fort Wallace without authorization and rejoining Elizabeth at Fort Riley. In his 1875 book,
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