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[Illustration: SMOKING THE PIPE OF PEACE.]




TENTING ON THE PLAINS

OR

GENERAL CUSTER IN KANSAS AND TEXAS

BY

ELIZABETH B. CUSTER

    AUTHOR OF "FOLLOWING THE GUIDON"
    "BOOTS AND SADDLES" ETC.

    ILLUSTRATED

[Illustration]

    NEW YORK
    HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
    1895




OTHER WORKS BY MRS. CUSTER.


      "BOOTS AND SADDLES"; or, Life in Dakota with General
      Custer. Portrait and Map.

      FOLLOWING THE GUIDON. Illustrated.

_Post 8vo, Cloth, $1 50 each._

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK.

[Illustration: Pointing hand]_Either of the above works will be sent by
mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, Canada, or
Mexico, on receipt of the price._

    Copyright, 1887, by CHARLES L. WEBSTER & CO.

    _All rights reserved._




    TO HIM
    WHOSE BRAVE AND BLITHE ENDURANCE
    MADE THOSE WHO FOLLOWED
    HIM FORGET,
    IN HIS SUNSHINY PRESENCE,
    HALF THE HARDSHIP AND THE DANGER




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER I                                                 PAGE
  GOOD-BY TO THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC                          17

  CHAPTER II
  NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE WAR                                   41

  CHAPTER III
  A MILITARY EXECUTION                                       