Life in Custer's Cavalry, Diaries and Letters of... 1867-1868
first edition
1977 · New Haven
by Barnitz, Albert and Jennie. Utley, Robert M. [editor]
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977 First edition. xiv, 302pp. 44 illustrations; appendixes, bibliography and index. Tan cloth. A fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket. Correspondence between Barnitz, who was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, under General George Custer, and his wife Jennie during the Indian Wars. Appendixes identify people and forts mentioned in the text, as well as describe the 7th Cavalry. This work is considered one of the better narratives detailing the life and times of a cavalry officer under Custer.. (Inventory #: 8109)