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Boots and Saddles by Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842 - 1933)Author: LibriVox
Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870s 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 laudatoryhis 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 officers 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 armys history of dont ask, dont tell. (Summary by Sue Anderson) Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Dedication, Preface, Change of Station
Episode 1
Wednesday, 31 December, 1969
