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Boots and Saddles

Gelesen von Sue Anderson

(4,526 Sterne; 57 Bewertungen)

Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troops met their tragic deaths in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. “Our life,” she writes, “was often as separate from the rest of the world as if we had been living on an island in the ocean.” Her portrait of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer is laudatory—his intellect, his love of dogs (he kept a hunting pack of 40 at the post); but, Boots and Saddles is more than just a memorial. She observes with keen insight, the varied persons, from Indian scouts, to enlisted men, to officer’s wives, who make up the army “family,” on the post. Her sympathetic story about the regimental laundress and midwife, with its sad ending, should take a place in the army’s history of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” (Summary by Sue Anderson) (8 hr 41 min)

Chapters

Dedication, Preface, Change of Station

16:54

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A Blizzard

28:40

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Western Hospitality

12:53

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Cavalry on the March

25:12

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Camping Among the Sioux

23:47

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A Visit to the Village of Two Bears

26:39

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Adventures During the Last Days of the March

27:16

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Separation and Reunion

16:49

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Our New Home at Fort Lincoln

20:35

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Incidents of Everyday Life

23:25

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The Burning of Our Quarters; Carrying the Mail

18:40

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Perplexities and Pleasures of Domestic Life

14:09

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A "Strong Heart" Dance

14:53

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Garrison Life

23:30

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General Custer's Literary Work

10:09

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Indian Depredations

9:22

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A Day of Anxiety and Terror

15:59

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Improvements at the Post, and Gardening

14:19

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General Custer's Library

14:08

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The Summer of the Black Hills Expedition

27:17

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Domestic Trials

18:58

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Capture and Escape of Rain-in-the-Face

26:04

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Garrison Amusements

18:10

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An Indian Council

8:00

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Breaking Up of the Missouri

23:35

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Curious Characters and Excursionists Among Us

14:09

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Religious Services; Leave of Absence

12:31

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A Winter's Journey Across the Plain

16:35

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Our Life's Last Chapter

17:21

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Bewertungen

Eliz. Custer, wife of the general

(5 Sterne)

has written a very readable account of life up to just after Little Big Horn. Surprising new POV (for this history buff) of Custer. esp. his humor, and his great love of dogs (40 pets and hunting dogs trraveled with the regiment, with as many sleeping in the tent and on the bed with the Custer's as he could convince her to admit). Getting to know so many of Custer's companions makes the foreknowledge of their fate more sharp and real. A quick rewarding read by Ms.Sue Anderson, whose voice seems perfect for the part.

(5 Sterne)

Great story and narration. Sue Anderson is a fantastic narrator.

Excellent description of life in frontiers after the civil war.

(4,5 Sterne)

Fascinating story from the wife of a high ranking US Army officer in the isolated outer reaches of our frontier after the civil war. The reader gave a commendable performance. The book is not about the Battle of the Little Big Horn; rather it is a historical prose of life during the years before that battle.

(2,5 Sterne)

I very much enjoyed the composition, but could not listen to the end as the narration was so hard to bare. Ms Anderson ended almost every sentence with the same cadence, which led me to distraction.

Too many Lies, in one book!

(2,5 Sterne)

So very glad modern investigations are proving George Armstrong Custer, the Authoress' supposed spouse, truest was the most ineptness ..., glory hogging, self centered, idiot

Very Enjoyable and felt like reader was Libby Custer

(5 Sterne)

Very good picture of the life of the old west read wonderfully

Dull at times, but interesting. Very abrupt ending.

(5 Sterne)