{"product_id":"9780803295537","title":"Life in Custer's Cavalry","description":"Albert and Jennie Barnitz \"were both perceptive, articulate individuals who fully realized that they were involved in fascinating historically important events.  They have left a record of frontier military life that can scarcely be matched elsewhere...Historian and buff alike will find this volume both enlightening and entertaining.\"--Paul A. Hutton, Journal of American History \"The reader will come to like Albert and Jennie Barnitz, whose letters trigger a time machine in which we come to know a good deal more about Life in Custer's Cavalry.\"--Montana \"Albert Barnitz...served with Custer's famed Seventh Cavalry for four years, 1867-70...In 1867 Albert and Jennie (Platt), both of Ohio, married and headed for the Kansas frontier.  Four months later the growing perils of Indian clashes forced her to return east...[Their] letters and diaries, dated from January 17, 1867, to February 10, 1869, are vivid and accurate...[They] provide a keen picture of life in the Seventh Cavalry, both in garrison and field, immediately after the Civil War.\"--The Historian Editor Robert Utley's books available in Bison Books editions include Billy the Kid:  A Short and Violent Life; Frontier Regulars:  The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891; and Frontiersmen in Blue:  The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.","brand":"Albert Barnitz, Jennie Barnitz, Robert M. Utley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45865796862270,"sku":"9780803295537","price":455.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780803295537_385a53d5-fc0b-4eb0-ba95-6a085fbd008a.jpg?v=1707330190","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780803295537","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}