CHAPTER XIX

THE FIRST FIGHT OF THE SEVENTH CAVALRY 387

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE Smoking the Pipe of Peace FRONTISPIECE

Texas in 1866 and in 1886 19

Eliza Cooking Under Fire 28

A Mule Lunching from a Pillow 78

General Custer as a Cadet 87

"O Golly! what am dat?" 108

Measuring an Alligator 125

General Custer at the Close of the War--Aged 25 168

"Stand there, cowards, will you, and see an old man robbed?" 188

General Custer with his Horse Vic, Stag Hounds and Deer Hounds 212

Kansas in 1866 and Kansas To-day 221

Conestoga Wagon, or Prairie-Schooner 223

The Officer's Dress--A New-comer for a Call 239

A Suspended Equestrienne 246

General Custer at his Desk in his Library 259

Gun-stand in General Custer's Library 287

Trophies of the Chase in General Custer's Library 297

Whipping Horses to Keep them from Freezing 316

A Match Buffalo Hunt 341

Gathering and Counting the Tongues 343

Supper Given by the Vanquished to the Victors of the Match Buffalo Hunt 345

A Buffalo Undecided as to an Attack on General Custer 368

A Buffalo at Bay 377

The Addled Letter-Carrier 385

Negroes Form their own Picket-line 389

An Attack on a Stage-coach 392

TENTING ON THE PLAINS.