Following the Guidon
by Elizabeth B. Custer
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Elizabeth Custer, the devoted wife of the general who would fall at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, had no illusions about what would be required to force southern Plains Indians onto reservations. Drawing on her husband's letters to her, she describes the Seventh Cavalry's risky winter campaign that culminated in November 1868 with the capture of a Cheyenne village on the Washita River. Following the Guidon shows Libby Custer shuttling between summer camp near Fort Hays, Kansas, and show more winter quarters in Fort Leavenworth. She observes frontier army life up close: the discipline and frivolity, tent housekeeping, the resourceful open-air cuisine, regimental quarrels and romances, the omnipresent rattlesnakes and buffalo shot from train windows, the Custer menagerie, the wildness of Ellsworth and Hays City, the presence of California Joe and Wild Bill Hickok. Libby accompanies the men on their hunting expeditions, relates the stories of scouts and teamsters, and always gives a human aspect to a difficult juncture in Custer's career. show lessTags
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Western Frontier Library (#33)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Following the Guidon
- Original publication date
- 1890
- People/Characters
- Tom Custer; Wild Bill Hickok; Dandy
- Important places
- Hays City, Kansas, USA; Fort Hays, Kansas, USA
- Important events
- Battle of Washita
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, Travel, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 978.02 — History & geography History of North America Western United States 19th Century
- LCC
- F594 .C95 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 8
