Tenting on the Plains

Elizabeth Bacon was just a young girl when she fell in love with George Custer, one of the most controversial Indian fighters of the late 1800s. The only surviving child of Judge Daniel and Eleanor Page Bacon, Elizabeth was born at Monroe, Michigan, on April 8, 1842. Libbie, as she was called, graduated valedictorian from Young Ladies’ Seminary and Collegiate Institute in Monroe at twenty. Shortly after graduating, barely a woman, she met Captain George Custer to her father’s dismay. Custer’s me