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Enriched edition. An illustrated memoir of the Seventh Cavalry's 1868–69 Plains campaign to the Washita—winter marches, parleys, and Gilded Age mythmaking
Following the Guidon (Illustrated Edition) recounts the Seventh Cavalry's southern Plains campaign of 1868–69, culminating at the Washita, in poised late‑Victorian prose. Custer blends eyewitness chronicle, domestic observation, and martial pageantry, moving from bivouac to battlefield with ritual and landscape in view. Period illustrations punctuate winter marches, parleys, and pursuits. As frontier literature, it participates in Reconstruction‑era debates over empire, heroism, and nation‑making. Widowed by Little Bighorn, Elizabeth Bacon Custer made curating her husband's reputation a vocation, and this volume sits at its center. A seasoned army spouse, she drew on letters, orderly papers, and her own notebooks. Her companion volumes and lecturing inform a voice—part advocate, part ethnographer—shaped by years on the frontier and a keen sense of how narrative fixes public memory. Recommended to readers of U.S. military history, Western studies, and women's life‑writing, Following the Guidon is indispensable as a primary source. Read critically—alert to its romanticizations and silences—and this illustrated edition becomes a vivid portal into Gilded Age martial culture, remembrance, and mythmaking.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.