The Diary of Elizabeth Bacon Custer: On the Plains with General Custer

by Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Nancy Plain

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Presents the diary of the wife of General George Armstrong Custer, focusing on their life on the Great Plains from 1873 to 1876, when Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were clearing the way for the Northern Pacific Railroad and battling Native Americans.

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Nancy Plain is the author of numerous children's books, including Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days (available in a Bison Books edition), winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction, the Nebraska Book Award for Youth Nonfiction, and the Will Rogers Medallion Award.

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Kubinyi, Laszlo (Illustrator)

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The Diary of Elizabeth Bacon Custer: On the Plains with General Custer
Original publication date
2004

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Nonfiction, Tween, Kids
DDC/MDS
973.8History & geographyHistory of North AmericaUnited StatesThe Gilded Age, Reconstruction, Spanish American War (1865-1901)
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F594 .C947Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin AmericaUnited States local historyThe West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains

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