Boots and Saddles by CUSTER, Elizabeth B - 1885,: or Life in Dakota with General Custer.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885,. First edition, second state with portrait and map. The first of Elizabeth B. Custer's trio of books written in support of the actions of her husband, General G. A. Custer. "The warm, loving reminiscences of Custer's devoted wife Libbie during their three years in Dakota Territory, detailing the good times as well as the hardships and heartaches of western frontier life" (O'Keefe).
Fittingly, this copy has passed through the hands of a resident of Fort Custer, who adorned a preliminary leaf with a large ownership inscription: "Mr M. Morrison, Fort Custer, Montana, August 1887". Octavo. Original pale brown cloth, title gilt to the spine, and to the front board with device of a bugle and notation for the title call on a banderolle above a sunrise over mountain range in black and gold, rays continue onto the lower board in blind, matching surface paper endpapers. Portrait frontispiece and full-page map of Montana and Dakota. Spine slightly cocked, extremities a touch rubbed and worn, joints cracked but firm, occasional marginal spotting to text block. A very good copy. Howes C980; O'Keefe 658