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Boots and Saddles

Boots and Saddles

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Number of Chapters: 29

Length: 08 hours and 41 minutes

Language: English

Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troops met their tragic deaths in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. “Our life,” she writes, “was often as separate from the rest of the world as if we had been living on an island in the ocean.” Her portrait of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer is laudatory—his intellect, his love of dogs (he kept a hunting pack of 40 at the post); but, Boots and Saddles is more than just a memorial. She observes with keen insight, the varied persons, from Indian scouts, to enlisted men, to officer’s wives, who make up the army “family,” on the post. Her sympathetic story about the regimental laundress and midwife, with its sad ending, should take a place in the army’s history of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” (Summary by Sue Anderson)

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Dedication, Preface, Change of Station (Sue Anderson)
A Blizzard (Sue Anderson)
Western Hospitality (Sue Anderson)
Cavalry on the March (Sue Anderson)
Camping Among the Sioux (Sue Anderson)
A Visit to the Village of Two Bears (Sue Anderson)
Adventures During the Last Days of the March (Sue Anderson)
Separation and Reunion (Sue Anderson)
Our New Home at Fort Lincoln (Sue Anderson)
Incidents of Everyday Life (Sue Anderson)
The Burning of Our Quarters; Carrying the Mail (Sue Anderson)
Perplexities and Pleasures of Domestic Life (Sue Anderson)
A "Strong Heart" Dance (Sue Anderson)
Garrison Life (Sue Anderson)
General Custer's Literary Work (Sue Anderson)
Indian Depredations (Sue Anderson)
A Day of Anxiety and Terror (Sue Anderson)
Improvements at the Post, and Gardening (Sue Anderson)
General Custer's Library (Sue Anderson)
The Summer of the Black Hills Expedition (Sue Anderson)
Domestic Trials (Sue Anderson)
Capture and Escape of Rain-in-the-Face (Sue Anderson)
Garrison Amusements (Sue Anderson)
An Indian Council (Sue Anderson)
Breaking Up of the Missouri (Sue Anderson)
Curious Characters and Excursionists Among Us (Sue Anderson)
Religious Services; Leave of Absence (Sue Anderson)
A Winter's Journey Across the Plain (Sue Anderson)
Our Life's Last Chapter (Sue Anderson)
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