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Life in Custer's Cavalry: Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz, 1867-1868 - Softcover

Utley, Robert Marshall; Barnitz, Albert; Barnitz, Jennie

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Synopsis

Albert and Jennie Barnitz "were both perceptive, articulate individuals who fully realized that they were involved in fascinating historically important events. They have left a record of frontier military life that can scarcely be matched elsewhere. . . . Historian and buff alike will find this volume both enlightening and entertaining."-Paul A. Hutton, Journal of American History. Editor Robert Utley's books available in Bison Books editions include Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life; Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891; and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.

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About the Author

Editor Robert Utley's books available in Bison Books editions include Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life; Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891; and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.

From the Back Cover

Through the study of the Barnitz Papers, the author writes a vivid description of frontier army life; of the attitudes of officers and their wives toward Indians, settlers, and themselves; and of particular characters and events in the story of Indian warfare in Kansas after the Civil War.

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