My Life on the Plains

First published in 1874, this memoir records George Armstrong Custer's years commanding the Seventh Cavalry on the Great Plains after the Civil War. He describes winter camps, summer marches, the Washita fight of 1868, scouts after Sioux and Cheyenne bands, and daily life among officers, scouts, and enlisted men on the Kansas and Dakota frontier. The narrative presents campaigns as hunts for villages and pony herds, treats Indian fighting as the army's central work, and answers critics of his methods. It is a first-person campaign chronicle, not a history of the Plains Wars as a whole and not an account of the later Little Bighorn.

Full grey open-weave cloth binding over blue-green boards. Variant binding in quarter grey open-weave cloth with brown cloth on the boards. Dark grey-green slipcase.