1885 Boots & Saddles, & 1890 Follow The Guidon, “1st Editions” by Libby Custer. For Sale

1885 Boots and Saddles and 1890 Follow The Guidon. Both first edition’s.

Boots and Saddles is a First Edition "With Portrait and Map" (The more desired issue)"Life in Dakota with General Custer" plus Custer pictures

Book was written by Elizabeth Bacon Custer. It was published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York. 1st Edition 1885 on title page with a copyright date of 1885. 312 pages of text followed by an appendix on the

Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 using General Custer's

letters. Illustrated with frontispiece of General Custer.

Approximate Dimensions: 5.25" x 7.75"

Excellent Condition Description: light

brown decorated cloth hardcover book with bright gilt cover and lettering.

Her three books, Boots and Saddles (1885), Following the Guidon (1890), and Tenting on the Plains (1893) were brilliant pieces of propaganda aimed at glorifying her dead husband's memory.

George

Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 ? June 25, 1876) was a United States

Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the

American Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted

to West Point in 1857, where he graduated last in his class in 1861.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, Custer was called to serve with the

Union Army.

Custer

developed a strong reputation during the Civil War. He participated in

the first major engagement, the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21,

1861, near Washington, D.C. His association with several important

officers helped his career as did his success as a highly effective

cavalry commander. Custer was brevetted to brigadier general at age 23,

less than a week before the Battle of Gettysburg, where he personally

led cavalry charges that prevented Confederate cavalry from attacking

the Union rear in support of Pickett's Charge. He was wounded in the

Battle of Culpeper Court House in Virginia on September 13, 1863. In

1864, Custer was awarded another star and brevetted to major general

rank. At the conclusion of the Appomattox Campaign, in which he and his

troops played a decisive role, Custer was present at General Robert E.

Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant, on April 9, 1865.

After

the Civil War, Custer remained a major general in the United States

Volunteers until they were mustered out in February 1866. He reverted to

his permanent rank of captain and was appointed a lieutenant colonel in

the 7th Cavalry Regiment in July 1866. He was dispatched to the west in

1867 to fight in the American Indian Wars. On June 25, 1876, while

leading the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in

Montana Territory against a coalition of Native American tribes, he and

all of his detachment?which included two of his brothers?were killed.

The battle is popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last

Stand." Custer and his regiment were defeated so decisively at the

Little Bighorn that it has overshadowed all of his prior achievements.

• Life in Dakota General Custer, 1885 1st Edition, with an authentic Elizabeth Custer XEROX copy signature and copies of Custer pictures. VERY IMPORTANT is that "1885" 1st Edition date is on the title page, as well as, the first printing of "With Portrait and Map" on the title page too. "1885" is also shown on the copyright page.