Boots and Saddles by Elizabeth Custer - FULL AUDIOBOOK

Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870's life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troops met their tragic deaths in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. 'Our life,' she writes, 'was often as separate from the rest of the world as if we had been living on an island in the ocean.' Her portrait of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer is laudatory—his intellect, his love of dogs (he kept a hunting pack of 40 at the post); but, Boots and Saddles is more than just a memorial. She observes with keen insight, the varied persons, from Indian scouts, to enlisted men, to officer's wives, who make up the army 'family,' on the post. Her sympathetic story about the regimental laundress and midwife, with its sad ending, should take a place in the army's history of 'don't ask, don't tell.'

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Dedication, Preface, Change of Station
00:16:53 - 02 - A Blizzard
00:45:34 - 03 - Western Hospitality
00:58:27 - 04 - Cavalry on the March
01:23:39 - 05 - Camping Among the Sioux
01:47:26 - 06 - A Visit to the Village of Two Bears
02:14:05 - 07 - Adventures During the Last Days of the March
02:41:21 - 08 - Separation and Reunion
02:58:10 - 09 - Our New Home at Fort Lincoln
03:18:45 - 10 - Incidents of Everyday Life
03:42:10 - 11 - The Burning of Our Quarters; Carrying the Mail
04:00:50 - 12 - Perplexities and Pleasures of Domestic Life
04:14:59 - 13 - A 'Strong Heart' Dance
04:29:52 - 14 - Garrison Life
04:53:22 - 15 - General Custer's Literary Work
05:03:31 - 16 - Indian Depredations
05:12:53 - 17 - A Day of Anxiety and Terror
05:28:52 - 18 - Improvements at the Post, and Gardening
05:43:11 - 19 - General Custer's Library
05:57:19 - 20 - The Summer of the Black Hills Expedition
06:24:36 - 21 - Domestic Trials
06:43:34 - 22 - Capture and Escape of Rain-in-the-Face
07:09:44 - 23 - Garrison Amusements
07:27:53 - 24 - An Indian Council
07:35:54 - 25 - Breaking Up of the Missouri
07:59:29 - 26 - Curious Characters and Excursionists Among Us
08:13:38 - 27 - Religious Services; Leave of Absence
08:26:09 - 28 - A Winter's Journey Across the Plain
08:42:44 - 29 - Our Life's Last Chapter

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