Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas

The author presents a first-person memoir of life accompanying her husband and his cavalry in the postwar plains, blending campaign narratives, domestic improvisations, and social vignettes from Kansas and Texas. Chapters trace marches, encampments, letters home, frontier hazards such as prairie fires, floods, and skirmishes, and everyday challenges like provisioning, hunting, and wintering animals. Portraits of officers and enlisted men, accounts of discipline and camaraderie, and scenes of civilian and military townsfolk alternate with reflections on leadership, sacrifice, and pioneer perseverance. The book combines anecdote, practical detail, and personal sentiment to evoke daily existence on a changing frontier.