Tenting on the Plains: Or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas

By Elizabeth B. Custer

"Mrs. Custer writes easily, well, and interestingly, for any one who would like to know what it meant for an army officer's wife to march, tent, and live on the plains, in those days, not far gone but now gone forever, when coaches filled the place of railways, buffalos roamed undisturbed, savages had their way with travelers, and residence, not to say exploration, was an experience of constant excitement and peril." -The Literary World "It was a part of our history that has no parallel; and it is fortunate that of the few women who participated in it there was one sufficiently gifted in the art of expression to give us its imperishable picture. Indeed, Mrs. Custer unites an unusual number of the qualities that make good writers. She has a fine sense of humor....She has the art of a dramatist in leading up to a crisis and at the same time concealing it till the last moment. The story of the military execution in Texas is thus told with consummate skill....She can portray a character - witness that of Eliza - with strong originality, and yet with perfect naturalness. She knows how much of camp gossip to give, and how much to suppress. She has the rare tact to tell with perfect delicacy some of the characteristic but rough incidents of a rough life, which an ordinary writer would either make vulgar or avoid altogether. She has patriotism without narrowness, wit without bitterness, and an abounding sympathy with everything noble in the varied humanity that fills her pages....Her husband is her hero, and it is not alone the feminine portion of her readers that will be led by these alternatively breezy and thoughtful chapters to fall in love with the 'boy general.' If it is true that the second book is the supreme test of authorship, we have here a triumph in literary art; for all the qualities that gave 'Boots and Saddles' a sudden and phenomenal success seem heightened in this volume, and some are here that hardly appeared in that book at all. It is at once charming as an entertainment and valuable and unique as history." -The Dial "It is one of Mrs. Custer's best books, and can be very favorably compared with her 'Boots and Saddles.'" -New Outlook "A new volume by the author of 'Boots and Saddles,' giving thrilling sketches of life on the plains with General Custer. Vivid pictures of the vicissitudes and perils of a frontier existence, graphic descriptions of buffalo hunting and Indian fighting. Interesting character sketches. A charming volume graphically written....An intensely interesting and instructive volume." -The Book Buyer "Mrs. Custer was a keen observer....The narrative abounds in vivid description, in exciting incident, and gives us a realistic picture of adventurous frontier life." -Boston Advertiser "Mrs. Custer's book is a capital book of adventure, whether in war or peace." -Daily News

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1542820537
• ISBN13: 9781542820530
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"