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title	:	My Life On the Plains : Or, Personal Experiences With Indians Western Frontier Library ; 52
author	:	Custer, George Armstrong.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	080611357X
print isbn13	:	9780806113579
ebook isbn13	:	9780585293240
language	:	English
subject	Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895, Great Plains--Description and travel.
publication date	:	1977
lcc	:	F594.C97 1977eb
ddc	:	923.573
subject	:	Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895, Great Plains--Description and travel.

Page i My Life on the Plains or, Personal Experiences with Indians The Western Frontier Library

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Page iii My Life on the Plains or, Personal Experiences with Indians By General George Armstrong Custer With an Introduction by Edgar I. Stewart UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NORMAN AND LONDON

Page iv ISBN: 0-8061 - 1357 - X Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62- 11275 My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians is Volume 52 in The Western Frontier Library. New edition copyright 1962 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Page v Contents Introduction Edgar I. Stewart ix My Life on the Plains 3 "Some Corrections of Life on the Plains," Gen. W. B. Hazen, U.S.A. 383 Index 408

Page vii Illustrations General George Armstrong Custer frontispiece Satanta, second chief of the Kiowas 61 The attack upon the train 92 The Kidder murder 110 The Battle of the Washita 242 Lone Wolf, head chief of the Kiowas 287 Yellow Bear, second chief of the Arapahoes 315 Little Raven, head chief of the Arapahoes 329 Map The Central Great Plains xix

Page ix Introduction by Edgar I. Stewart When in the early afternoon of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led five troops of the Seventh United States Cavalry along the crest of the ridges that border the eastern bank of the Little Big Horn River and down into the valley of that stream, he had a reputation as the most famous Indian fighter in the history of the army. Whether or not he actually deserved that reputation was questioned at the time, and the question, to a certain extent, has echoed ever since. That he had graduated from the Military Academy at the bottom of his class, and under a disciplinary cloud at that, was beyond question. Commissioned a second lieutenant of the cavalry at the beginning of the Civil War, he had early displayed that flair for the glamorous and flamboyant that was to be his most distinguishing characteristic. But his rise had been phenomenally rapid and the end of the war found him a brevet major general with an illustrious reputation as a cavalry leader. There were many persons who attributed his success more to luck than ability, and the expression "Custer's Luck" soon became a byword. His detractors, and they were many, insisted that his luck was due to the fact that he was Sheridan's "pet" and had been given every opportunity to distinguish himself, even when it meant denying an equal opportunity to abler men. With the close of the war Custer had reverted to the rank of captain in the Fifth Cavalry. The future did not seem particularly promising, for Custer knew no other career than that of the army and with the great number of officers created by the war, it was inevitable that promotion would be both slow and uncertain. But the law of July 28, 1866, reorganizing the military establishment of the United States, opened the door of opportunity in that it provided for the addition of four cavalry regiments, numbered from seven through ten. Two of these, the Ninth and Tenth regiments, were to be composed of Negro men, while the Seventh and Eighth were to be white troops. It was further provided that the officers should be

Page x selected from veterans of the Union Army but only after an examination conducted by a board of officers of that branch of the service in which the applicant proposed to serve. The board was to inquire into the services rendered during the war as well as to ascertain the individual capacity and qualifications of the individual, and the appointment when made was to be without regard to previous rank or status and determined solely by merit and qualifications.

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