Featured in this lot is this first edition 1885 Boots and Saddles by Elizabeth B. Custer. The Harper & Brothers, New York publisher. "Boots and Saddles or Life in Dakota with General Custer" With Portrait and Map. This is a wonderful narrative of the life of General Custer on the plains in the mid to late 1800s. The book was written as a dedication to her husband, General George Armstrong Custer, and chronicles their life together until his untimely death at the hands of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass), and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand in 1876. After President Ulysses S. Grant publicly blamed General Armstrong Custer for the disaster at Little Bighorn, Elizabeth Custer, the general?s wife, took on the role of his public defender. Beginning with "Boots and Saddles" in 1885, she would go on to publish a trilogy of autobiographical works about the life of her martyred husband, to include "Tenting on the Plains" (1887) and "Following the Guidon" (1890). The book comes complete with correspondence regarding this book and similar literature surrounding the topic of before, during, and after the Battle of Little Bighorn. The book comes with a museum or collector tag that reads as follows: 1396-87 - O'dell. The condition of this book is preserved with some wear to the cover and to the inside and outside ofg the spine of the book with slight browning to the pages due to age. The measurements of this book is 7 5/8" x 5 1/2". The collective weight of this book is 1lb. Provenance: From the John Kleinschmidt collection which was on loan to the C.M. Russell Museum from 1987 to 1993 and included in the "The Cowboy West: 100 Years of Photography 1992-1993 exhibit.