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On the Plains with Custer (Classic Reprint)
On the Plains with Custer - Classic Reprint Author:Edwin L. Sabin In every direction wide stretched the lonely brown prairie-land of north central Kansas, 1866. From horizon to horizon not a house of any kind was to be seen, nor even a tree except low lines of willows and occasional cotton woods marking the courses of streams. Late November's pale blue sky bent mildly over, the steady plains breeze rustled the... more » dried weeds and the sun-cured carpet of buffalo-grass; and Ned Fletcher, trudging wearily, felt that he was a very small boy in a very large world.
However, he was not afraid of the largeness; and as he hastened as fast as he could, with ear alert for sunning rattlesnakes and eye upon a vast herd of buffalo grazing far to the northeast, he was rather glad of the loneliness. Moving objects, ahorse, might mean Indians, and Indians he did not want. Ah no, no, no.
Ned was bare-headed, his tow hair long and matted as if it needed cutting and combing. But who had
Table of Contents
I A Waif on the Prairie 17; II At Old Fort Riley 34; III The Seventh Takes the Field 48; IV Satanta Makes a Speech 67; V In Battle Array 79; VI The Abandoned Indian Village 89; VII Scouting with Coster 104; VIII Pawnee Kjller Plays Tricks 114; IX Danger on Every Side 129; X Sad News for the Army Blue 142; XI Grim Days Along the Trail 153; XII Phil Sheridan Arrives 160; XIII The Yellow Hair Rides Again 173; XIV The Winter Warpath 180; XV "We Attack at Daylight" 192; XVI "GarryowenJ" and "Charge!" 204; XVII After the Battle 215; XVIII To the Land of the Dakotah 227; XIX Scouting Among the Sioux 23C; XX Rain-in-the-Face Vows Vengeance249; XXI Sitting Bull Says: " Come On!" 256; XXII Out Against the Sioux 264; XXIII Loosing for Sitting Bull 274; XXIV Sitting Bull at Bay 290
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