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Boots and Saddles

Boots and Saddles

by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

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Author
Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933
Title
"Boots and Saddles"; Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
Credits
Produced by Richard Hulse, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
Subject
Black Hills War, 1876-1877
Category
Text
eBook-No.
48972
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48972
Release Date
May 16, 2015
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.“BOOTS AND SADDLES” OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.BOOTS AND SADDLES. — CHAPTER I. CHANGE OF STATION.
  5. 5.CHAPTER II. A BLIZZARD.
  6. 6.CHAPTER III. WESTERN HOSPITALITY.
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV. CAVALRY ON THE MARCH.
  8. 8.CHAPTER V. CAMPING AMONG THE SIOUX.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI. A VISIT TO THE VILLAGE OF “TWO BEARS.”
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII. ADVENTURES DURING THE LAST DAYS OF THE MARCH.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. SEPARATION AND REUNION.
  12. 12.CHAPTER IX. OUR NEW HOME AT FORT LINCOLN.
  13. 13.CHAPTER X. INCIDENTS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XI. THE BURNING OF OUR QUARTERS.—CARRYING THE MAIL.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XII. PERPLEXITIES AND PLEASURES OF DOMESTIC LIFE.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. A “STRONG HEART” DANCE!
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. GARRISON LIFE.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XV. GENERAL CUSTER’S LITERARY WORK.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. INDIAN DEPREDATIONS.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. A DAY OF ANXIETY AND TERROR.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. IMPROVEMENTS AT THE POST, AND GARDENING.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. GENERAL CUSTER’S LIBRARY.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XX. THE SUMMER OF THE BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. DOMESTIC TRIALS.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXII. CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII. GARRISON AMUSEMENTS.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV. AN INDIAN COUNCIL.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXV. BREAKING UP OF THE MISSOURI.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI. CURIOUS CHARACTERS AND EXCURSIONISTS AMONG US.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII. RELIGIOUS SERVICES.—LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII. A WINTER’S JOURNEY ACROSS THE PLAINS.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX. OUR LIFE’S LAST CHAPTER.
  33. 33.APPENDIX. — THE YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION OF 1873. — Official Report of the Engagements with Indians on the 4th and 11th ultimo. — LETTERS FROM THE BLACK HILLS, 1874. — LETTERS FROM THE YELLOWSTONE, 1876.
  34. 34.Transcriber’s Notes

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