"Boots and saddles, or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
By: by Elizabeth B. Custer
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Published: 1885
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Military life; Frontier and pioneer life; Generals' spouses; Biography; Indians of North America; Wars; Dakota Indians; Wars, 1876; United States. Army; United States
Other titles: Boots and saddles; Life in Dakota with General Custer
Notes: Another edition published 1885 without portrait and map.

Title page included in pagination.

Includes appendix: "The Yellowstone Expedition of 1873: Extracts from Letters written by General Custer to his Wife during the Expedition of the Yellowstone in 1873." (p. 271-312).

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
Table of contents: title: Change of station; title: A blizzard; title: Western hospitality; title: Cavalry on the march; title: Camping among the Sioux; title: A visit to the village of "Two Bears"; title: Adventures during the last days of the march; title: Separation and reunion; title: Our new house at Fort Lincoln; title: Incidents of every-day life; title: The burning of our quarters : carrying the mail; title: Perplexities and pleasures of domestic life; title: A "strong heart" dance!; title: Garrison life; title: General Custer's literary work; title: Indian depredations; title: A day of anxiety and terror; title: Improvements at the post, and gardening; title: General Custer's library; title: The summer of the Black Hills expedition; title: Domestic trials; title: Capture and escape of Rain-in-the-Face; title: Garrison amusements; title: An Indian council; title: Breaking up the Missouri; title: Curious characters and excursionists among us; title: Religious services : leave of absence; title: A winter's journey across the Plains; title: Our life's last journey.