num_pages: 480
description: After a year of retirement at the end of the Civil War, George Armstrong Custer is summoned by General Sheridan and appointed to the cavalry to quell the Indians of the Southern plains territory. Success in this area leads Sheridan to have Custer subdue the Sioux and Cheyenne of the Northern plains. Custer carries on an extra-marital affair with a young Indian girl. This novel is a prelude to the Battle of Little Big Horn.
language: English
title: Long Winter Gone
titlecomplete: Long Winter Gone
genres: Historical, Fiction, Westerns, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 101
series: Son of the Plains
publisher: Bantam