My life on the Great Plains /
George A. Custer; Edited by Milo Milton Quaife
- Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1971
- xli, 626 p.
The Great Plains -- General Hancock's campaign -- A futile pursuit -- Indian raids and murders -- From Fort Hays to Fort McPherson -- The Indians attack the cavalry -- White deserters and red massacre -- Futile marches and countermarches -- Launching a winter campaign -- The Battle of the Washita -- Reaping the fruits of victory -- The lot of two white captives -- Waging the winter campaign -- Red and White diplomacy -- A peace mission and its results -- Further pursuits of the Cheyennes -- Successful ending of the campaign.
In 1861 George A. Custer graduated from West Point number 34 in a class of thirty four; two years later, at the age of twenty-three, he had become the youngest general in the Union army.