Boots and Saddles
Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Lu par Sue Anderson
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)
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Eliz. Custer, wife of the general
Vivia
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.
Keith Wilgus
Great story and narration. Sue Anderson is a fantastic narrator.
Excellent description of life in frontiers after the civil war.
Rich
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.
Guppybag
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!
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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
cprdiver
Very good picture of the life of the old west read wonderfully
Dull at times, but interesting. Very abrupt ending.
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