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Autore: | Custer Elizabeth Bacon <1842-1933.> |
Titolo: | Following the guidon / / by Elizabeth B. Custer |
Pubblicazione: | Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Soggetto topico: | Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) |
Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas | |
Generals' spouses - Kansas | |
Women - West (U.S.) | |
Washita Campaign, 1868-1869 | |
Cheyenne Indians - Wars | |
Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) Description and travel |
Note generali: | Originally published: Following the guidon. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- FOLLOWING THE GUIDON -- GENERAL CUSTER AND HIS SCOUTS. -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE. -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I. -- THE MARCH INTO THE INDIAN TERRITORY. -- ILLUSTRATION: INDIANS PREPARING TO MOVE. -- CHAPTER II. -- GENERAL CUSTER'S LETTERS DESCRIBING THE MARCH -- ILLUSTRATION: INDIANS ON THE WAR-PATH -- CHAPTER III. -- WHITE SCOUTS. -- ILLUSTRATION: CALIFORNIA JOE -- CHAPTER IV. -- BATTLE OF THE WASHITA. -- ILLUSTRATION: RECONNOITRING THE SITUATION -- ILLUSTRATION: INDIAN PRISONERS ON THE MARCH -- CHAPTER V. -- INDIAN TRAILS, COUNCILS, AND CAPTIVES. -- ILLUSTRATION: DISTRIBUTING THE MAIL -- CHAPTER VI. -- IN CAMP ON BIG CREEK. -- CHAPTER VII. -- INDIAN PRISONER. -- ILLUSTRATION: INDIAN VILLAGE -- CHAPTER VIII. -- CORRAL OF THE CAPTIVES. -- ILLUSTRATION: CAPTURED CHIEFS - FAT BEAR, DULL KNIFE, BIG HEAD - IN TRAVELLING COSTUME. -- CHAPTER IX. -- PETS OF THE CAMP. -- ILLUSTRATION: A SCALP LOCK -- ILLUSTRATION: WARIOR IN WAR-BONNET -- CHAPTER X. -- A SLOW MULE-RACE. -- CHAPTER XI. -- TALES OF SOLDIERS' DEVOTION AND DROLLERY. -- CHAPTER XII. -- WILD BILL AS A MAGISTRATE. -- ILLUSTRATION: THE SCOUT -- CHAPTER XIII. -- HOME OF THE BUFFALO. -- ILLUSTRATION: SHOOTING BUFFALO FROM CAR-WINDOWS -- CHAPTER XIV. -- FIRST WOMEN TO HUNT BUFFALOES. -- ILLUSTRATION: BUFFALO BROUGHT TO BAY -- CHAPTER XV. -- HUNTING RECORDS. -- CHAPTER XVI. -- ARMY HOUSE-KEEPING. -- CHAPTER XVII. -- NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION. -- CHAPTER XVIII. -- "GARRYOWEN" LEADS THE HUNT. -- CHAPTER XIX. -- ARMY PROMOTIONS. -- ILLUSTRATION: PAYMASTER'S ESCORT -- CHAPTER XX. -- A FLOOD ON BIG CREEK. -- CHAPTER XXI. -- RATTLESNAKES AS NEIGHBORS. -- CHAPTER XXII. -- DANDY. -- ILLUSTRATION: DANDY. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Following the guidon |
ISBN: | 1-58218-118-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824457303321 |
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