Tenting on the Plains - General Custer in Kansas and Texas

Written by Elizabeth B. Custer, wife of General George Armstrong Custer, Tenting on the Plains begins in the closing days of the Civil War. Before the victory parades had even finished, General Custer was assigned to lead the occupation of Texas. Texas was at the extreme of the lawless frontier, and had been spared much of the worst fighting. Its citizens hadn't yet embraced the South's capitulation, and the 26-year old General and Civil War hero was now charged with the daunting task of pacifying a population still hostile to the Union. From Texas, we follow George and Elizabeth Custer to Kansas, where Custer was put in charge of pacifying Indians up in arms against westward emigrants. This fascinating story gives us an appreciation for the sacrifices the men and women blazing the American frontier endured, and allows us to see it through their eyes rather than a perspective jaded by time.