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Autore |
Custer Elizabeth Bacon <1842-1933.> |
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Boots and saddles : or, Life in Dakota with General Custer / / by Elizabeth B. Custer |
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Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 1999 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Generals |
Frontier and pioneer life - Dakota Territory |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: Boots and saddles, or, Life in Dakota with General Custer. New York: Harper & Brothers, [18--]. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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BOOTS AND SADDLES -- PREFACE. -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I. -- CHANGE OF STATION. -- CHAPTER II. -- A BLIZZARD. -- CHAPTER III. -- WESTERN HOSPITALITY. -- CHAPTER IV. -- CAVALRY ON THE MARCH. -- CHAPTER V. -- CAMPING AMONG THE SIOUX. -- CHAPTER VI. -- A VISIT TO THE VILLAGE OF "TWO BEARS." -- CHAPTER VII. -- ADVENTURES DURING THE LAST DAYS OF THE MARCH. -- CHAPTER VIII. -- SEPARATION AND REUNION. -- CHAPTER IX. -- OUR NEW HOME AT FORT LINCOLN. -- CHAPTER X. -- INCIDENTS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. -- CHAPTER XI. -- THE BURNING OF OUR QUARTERS.-CARRYING THE MAIL. -- CHAPTER XII. -- PERPLEXITIES AND PLEASURES OF DOMESTIC LIFE. -- CHAPTER XIII. -- A "STRONG HEART "DANCE! -- CHAPTER XIV. -- GARRISON LIFE. -- CHAPTER XV. -- GENERAL CUSTER'S LITERARY WORK. -- CHAPTER XVI. -- INDIAN DEPREDATIONS. -- CHAPTER XVII. -- A DAY OF ANXIETY AND TERROR. -- CHAPTER XVIII. -- IMPROVEMENTS AT THE POST,AND GARDENING. -- CHAPTER XIX. -- GENERAL CUSTER 'S LIBRARY. -- CHAPTER XX. -- THE SUMMER OF THE BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION -- CHAPTER XXI. -- DOMESTIC TRIALS. -- CHAPTER XXII. -- CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE. -- CHAPTER XXIII. -- GARRISON AMUSEMENTS. -- CHAPTER XXIV. -- AN INDIAN COUNCIL. -- CHAPTER XXV. -- BREAKING UP OF THE MISSOURI. -- CHAPTER XXVI. -- CURIOUS CHARACTERS AND EXCURSIONISTS AMONG US. -- CHAPTER XXVII. -- RELIGIOUS SERVICES.-LEAVE OF |
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ABSENCE. -- CHAPTER XXVIII. -- A WINTER 'S JOURNEY ACROSS THE PLAINS. -- CHAPTER XXIX. -- OUR LIFE 'S LAST CHAPTER. -- APPENDIX. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Volume II rejoins the expedition in January of 1855. Most of the crew is ill, and they have been reduced to tearing apart their trapped ship for firewood. Food has run low; forcing them to eat their starving dogs and Kane must prevent a mutiny that will surely doom their chances of survival. After enduring a second brutal winter, it becomes apparent that the ice will not release the Advance. Kane and his men set out with the ship's weathered and worn whaling boats in tow. Their destination is Greenland-thirteen hundred miles away across the frozen sea. The sick and weary crew must brave the dangers of thin ice, frigid waters and the approach of a third winter in their desperate attempt to return home. |
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