"Boots and Saddles"; Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer. Elizabeth Bacon Custer
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Название: "Boots and Saddles"; Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
Автор: Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4057664634726
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Elizabeth Bacon Custer
"Boots and Saddles"; Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664634726
Table of Contents
CHAPTER III. WESTERN HOSPITALITY.
CHAPTER IV. CAVALRY ON THE MARCH.
CHAPTER V. CAMPING AMONG THE SIOUX.
CHAPTER VI. A VISIT TO THE VILLAGE OF “TWO BEARS.”
CHAPTER VII. ADVENTURES DURING THE LAST DAYS OF THE MARCH.
CHAPTER VIII. SEPARATION AND REUNION.
CHAPTER IX. OUR NEW HOME AT FORT LINCOLN.
CHAPTER X. INCIDENTS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE.
CHAPTER XI. THE BURNING OF OUR QUARTERS.—CARRYING THE MAIL.
CHAPTER XII. PERPLEXITIES AND PLEASURES OF DOMESTIC LIFE.
CHAPTER XIII. A “STRONG HEART” DANCE!
CHAPTER XV. GENERAL CUSTER’S LITERARY WORK.
CHAPTER XVI. INDIAN DEPREDATIONS.
CHAPTER XVII. A DAY OF ANXIETY AND TERROR.
CHAPTER XVIII. IMPROVEMENTS AT THE POST, AND GARDENING.
CHAPTER XIX. GENERAL CUSTER’S LIBRARY.
CHAPTER XX. THE SUMMER OF THE BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION.
CHAPTER XXII. CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE.
CHAPTER XXIII. GARRISON AMUSEMENTS.
CHAPTER XXIV. AN INDIAN COUNCIL.
CHAPTER XXV. BREAKING UP OF THE MISSOURI.
CHAPTER XXVI. CURIOUS CHARACTERS AND EXCURSIONISTS AMONG US.
CHAPTER XXVII. RELIGIOUS SERVICES.—LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. A WINTER’S JOURNEY ACROSS THE PLAINS.
CHAPTER XXIX. OUR LIFE’S LAST CHAPTER.
THE YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION OF 1873.
LETTERS FROM THE BLACK HILLS, 1874.
LETTERS FROM THE YELLOWSTONE, 1876.
OUTLINE MAP
of portions of MONTANA & DAKOTA
Copyright, 1885, by Harper & Brothers
BOOTS AND SADDLES.
CHAPTER I.
CHANGE OF STATION.
General Custer graduated at West Point just in time to take part in the battle of Bull Run. He served with his regiment—the 5th Cavalry—for a time, but eventually was appointed aide-de-camp to General McClellan. He came to his sister’s home in my native town, Monroe, Michigan, during the winter of 1863, and there I first met him. In the spring he returned to the army in Virginia, and was promoted that summer, at the age of twenty-three, from captain to brigadier-general. During the following СКАЧАТЬ