Description
The shoulder strap edition of Tenting on the Plains by Elizabeth B. Custer.
Octavo, xiii, [3], 702pp. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine, decorative color inlays on cover and spine. Light rubbing to cloth on front cover, wear from handling to top edge of spine. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Custer with tissue cover. Decorative floral endpapers. Complete with 28 full page illustrations and maps. Bright illustration of flags in gilt, red, blue and white on front panel.
After President Ulysses S. Grant publicly blamed General Custer for the disaster at Little Big Horn, Elizabeth Custer, the General’s wife, took on the role of his public defender. Beginning with her book, Boots and Saddles in 1885, she would go on to publish three books about the life of her martyred husband. This work is the second book of the trilogy written by Mrs. Custer.
