Boots and Saddles

by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Category: "U.S. History - Military"
Pages:276
Year of Publication:1885
Date Added:08/28/2008
Date Read:12/13/2014
Notes:Subtitle: or, Life in Dakota with General Custer

Custer's wife writes about their life together on the march and at Fort Abraham Lincoln in North Dakota from 1873 to 1876, ending when she got the news of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
My Rating: 7

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Review - Boots and Saddles

Libbie was a loyal wife. She has absolutely nothing negative to say about her husband. But she's an entertaining writer as she talks about the boring times, the fun times and the dangerous times on the frontier post. The book ends with a series of letters from Custer to her when he was on his various campaigns, including his final one.
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