When General Custer led his troops to annihilation in the Battle
of the Little Big Horn in 1876, he was possibly the most notorious
Indian fighter the army had known. In his own time, he achieved
much of his fame as a daring soldier from his own published
accounts of his adventures. Indeed, in "My Life on the Plains,"
originally published serially in The Galaxy magazine starting in
May, 1872, Custer displays the flamboyance and glamour generally
attributed to him by others.
Covering the years 1867-69, the period of most extensive
military activity against the Plains Indians, Custer's book tells
of the newly reorganized Seventh Cavalry's operations on the
frontier. In the telling, it aroused fresh controversy over the
Battle of the Washita during the Winter Campaign of 1868. In fact,
Custer so vigorously denounced the "humanitarians" espousing the
"Indian peace policy" that one of those named by him - General W.
B. Hazen - defended his reputation in a pamphlet issued in 1874.
Hazen's rebuttal, entitled "Corrections of Life on the Plains," is
appended to this volume.
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