Very good copy of the 1885 Harper & Brothers first edition, with matching title and copyright dates. A mixed state (likely second printing): title page without “Portrait and Map,” yet includes the frontis portrait (map not present).
 
Elizabeth Custer’s engaging memoir captures life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas during the 1870s—just before her husband, General George Armstrong Custer, and his troops met their fate at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
 
•  8vo. 312pp
•  Publisher’s brown cloth, gilt & black stamped decoration
•  Condition: Very Good – slight spine lean, corners bumped, fraying at tips, small loss to endpaper corner; interior clean and unmarked
 
A scarce and desirable first edition of this important frontier narrative—an essential addition for collectors of Western Americana, military history, or Custeriana.