An autobiography of General Custer

Taken from George Armstrong Custer's own writings, An Autobiography of General Custer is the true story of one of the most praised and most despised - though surely among the most remembered - American military heroes. Indeed few figures in ancient and recent history were as wildly cheered and roundly hated as General Custer. In the evenings, on post and during his various leaves, Custer would sit at the dining room table with his beloved wife, Libby, and together they would compose the various stories of his exploits. These stories would eventually become the book My Life on the Plains. A bestseller in its time, My Life on the Plains is the basis for Custer's autobiography. In the years following the Civil War, Custer had gained a reputation as a bold and inventive leader of the calvary. After being temporarily forced into retirement, Custer was given command of an expedition to help subjugate the native people of the Great Plains and to force them onto reservations. Along the way, he enlisted the help of and eventually befriended many Indians, including Little Robe, Mo-nah-se-tah, and the son of Satanta, chief of the Kiowas. Through An Autobiography of General Custer, Custer prov