Shaping the American Character

Turner’s key “frontier thesis” argues that frontier life shaped the ...


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On the Plains with General Custer

American History

Libbie Custer’s Boots and Saddles, published in 1885, offers not only an intimate portrait of her husband George Armstrong Custer, the tragic commander of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It also vividly records the dangers and hardships of life on the Western frontier for those army wives who followed their husbands from one post to another. Such accounts are scarce. The existence Libbie relates was difficult and sometimes precarious, and when the soldiers left for campaigns against the Indians, the wives waited uneasily at home for news. 

Tags:  George Armstrong Custer - Libbie Custer - Battle of the Little Big Horn - Indians - Army Wives - Western Frontier

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