Elizabeth Bacon was born in Michigan on this day in 1843. She died in 1933.
Her contemporaries remember Elizabeth as a talented, intelligent, and beautiful woman. Elizabeth graduated as valedictorian from the Young Ladies’ Seminary and Collegiate Institute in Monroe, Michigan.
Shortly after, she met George Custer and the couple was married in 1864.
After her husband's dramatic death in 1876, Elizabeth set out to write about him and the West. At first, she was treated as an apologist for her controversial husband but over time she earned much respect.
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