Tenting On the Plains Or General Custer in Kansas And Texas

A work by Elizabeth Bacon Custer, devoted to her husband General George Armstrong Custer, outstanding Union cavalry commander during the American civil war, but remembered today for his role in the Plains Indians wars. In Tenting on the Plains (1887), Custer offers an evocative look at her experiences following General Custer in Kansas and Texas from 1865 to 1867. She describes cholera and other deceases, insects and scorpions of Texas, fire and flood of Kansas; racism, mule drivers and many oth