My Life on the Plains (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Personal Experiences with Indians

by George Armstrong Custer, Wayne Michael Sarf (Introduction)

Overview

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "Your articles on the Plains are by far the best I have ever read," - William T. Sherman to George Armstrong Custer

Two years before he became a legend at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer penned his fascinating memoir, My Life on the Plains. Written when he was just thirty-four years old, it tells of his early years as a cavalry commander on America's military frontier and his part in the grim business of Indian warfare against the formidable tribes still resisting white encroachment. My Life on the Plains not only remains an important source for historians by a leading participant in the Indian Wars, but a red-blooded tale that can still evoke a vanishing frontier, the thrill of the buffalo chase, and the warlike panoply of Indian horsemen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411466210
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Born in Ohio in 1839 and raised in Michigan, George Armstrong Custer secured an appointment in 1857 to West Point. At twenty-three years old, he became the Union Army’s youngest general. Custer’s metamorphosis from slain national hero to self-serving, incompetent, and even genocidal villain—still the symbolic frontier soldier, recast as a handy scapegoat for America’s sins against the Indian—has failed to dim interest in his memoirs.