ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER
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AND NOW AT FULL SPEED PASSING NED ALSO HE LEANED, INDIAN-WISE
ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER
THE WESTERN LIFE AND DEEDS OF THE CHIEF WITH THE YELLOW HAIR, UNDER WHOM SERVED BOY BUGLER NED FLETCHER, WHEN IN THE TROUBLOUS YEARS 1866–1876 THE FIGHTING SEVENTH CAVALRY HELPED TO WIN PIONEER KANSAS, NEBRASKA, AND DAKOTA FOR WHITE CIVILIZATION AND TODAY’S PEACE
BY
EDWIN L. SABIN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES H. STEPHENS AND PORTRAITS
“The bravest are the tenderest,— The loving are the daring.” —Bayard Taylor
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1913
PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.
TO THE ARMY WOMEN
MOTHERS, WIVES, AND SWEETHEARTS WHO WORKED AND SMILED AND WEPT AND PRAYED WHILE SOLDIERS MARCHED AND FOUGHT