TENTING ON THE PLAINS or General Custer in Kansas and Texas

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1887. First Edition, First Issue. Portrait engraving of General Custer as frontispiece, and numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text, and with many engraved full-page plates, including a number by Frederick Remington. 8vo, publisher's original deluxe olive cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration of Custer's sword to the spine panel and with decoative tooling in gilt and pictorial decorations in colours of the flags used by Custer to the upper cover. xxiii, 702 pp. A very handsome copy, quite pleasing and internally fine, only minor evidence of use or age and very well preserved withal. The binding bright and clean. FIRST EDITION AND SCARCE. After his death, Custer achieved the lasting fame that he had sought on the battlefield. The public saw him as a tragic military hero and exemplary gentleman who sacrificed his life for his country. Custer's wife, Elizabeth, who had accompanied him in many of his frontier expeditions, did much to advance this view with the publication of this and several other books about her late husband.
"Mrs. Custer has broken open and lavishly exposed her memories of military life with her husband in Texas and Kansas during the two years immediately following Lee's surrender... we are taken directly into her home, and share her daily hopes and fears..." Nation, 46: 455.