My Life on the Plains

Or, Personal Experiences with Indians

By:

George Armstrong Custer

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Western Frontier Library Series

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When General Custer led his troops to annihilation in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, he was possibly the most notorious Indian fighter the army had known. In his own time, he achieved much of his fame as a daring soldier through his own published accounts of his adventures. Indeed, in My Life on the Plains, originally published serially in the Galaxy magazine starting in May 1872, Custer displays the flamboyance and glamour generally attributed to him by others.Covering the years 1867-69, the period of most extensive military activity against the Plains Indians, Custer's book tells of the newly reorganized Seventh Cavalry's operations on the frontier. When published, it aroused fresh controversy over the Battle of the Washita during the Winter Campaign of 1868. In fact, Custer so vigorously denounced the ""humanitarians"" espousing the ""Indian peace policy"" that one of those named by him - General W. B. Hazen - defended his reputation in a pamphlet issued in 1874. Hazen's rebuttal, entitled ""Corrections of Life on the Plains,"" is appended to this volume.

Author Biography:

George Armstrong Custer was an 1861 West Point graduate and a dashing officer in the United States Cavalry during the Civil War. Edgar I. Stewart, who provided an illuminating introduction and notes, was a distinguished Western historian, perhaps best known for his incomparable account of the events leading to the Custer disaster-Custer's Luck, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Release date Australia

July 30th, 1976

Author

George Armstrong Custer

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Edgar I. Stewart

Illustrations

8 black & white illustrations, 1 map

Pages

448

Series

The Western Frontier Library Series

Dimensions

125x190x24

ISBN-13

9780806113579

Product ID

3403954

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