Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer in Kansas and Texas, by Elizabeth B. Custer, First Edition, in Original Boards, 1887

Custer, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. First edition. Octavo. Original brown cloth boards, embossed with gilt, red, blue, and gray to front, gilt titles to spine. Illustrated throughout. Presented is a first edition printing of Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth B. Custer. It was published in New York by Charles L. Webster & Company, in 1887. It is presented in its original brown cloth boards, embossed in gilt, red, blue, and gray. The book is decorated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of then Brevet Major General Custer and 28 mid-text illustrations, including two maps.  After President Ulysses S. Grant publicly blamed General Armstrong Custer for the disaster at Little Bighorn, Elizabeth Custer, the general’s wife, took on the role of his public defender. Beginning with her book, Boots and Saddles, in 1885, she would go on to publish a trilogy