Tenting on the Plains Author:Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Frederic Remington Elizabeth Bacon was just a young girl when she fell in love with George Armstrong Custer, one of the most controversial Indian fighters of the middle 1800s. Barely a woman when she defied her father to marry him, she went on to earn literary fame as well as financial independence with her entertaining tales of frontier life as the wife of the gr... more »eat General. Her stories of life on the plains are as colorful today as when they first appeared over a century ago.« less