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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791697803321

Titolo

Buffalo soldiers in the West [[electronic resource] ] : a Black soldiers anthology / / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, Tex., : Texas A&M University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-299-05223-1

1-60344-449-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 319 p

Altri autori (Persone)

GlasrudBruce A

SearlesMichael N. <1942->

Disciplina

973.8

Soggetti

African Americans - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century

African Americans - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

African American soldiers - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century

African American soldiers - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

African American soldiers - West (U.S.)

Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)

West (U.S.) Race relations

West (U.S.) History 1860-1890

West (U.S.) History 1890-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Western Black soldiers since The Buffalo Soldiers : a review of the literature / Bruce A. Glasrud -- Fort Riley's Black soldiers and the Army's changing role in the West, 1867-85 / William A. Dobak -- William R. Shafter, Black troops, and the opening of the Llano Estacado, 1870-75 / Paul H. Carlson -- Buffalo soldier chaplains of the old West / Alan K. Lamm -- "Dress on the colors, boys!" Black noncommissioned officers in the regular Army, 1866-98 / Douglas C. McChristian -- Cathay Williams : Black woman soldier, 1866-68 / DeAnne Blanton -- One soldier's service : Caleb Benson in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, 1875-1908 / Thomas R. Buecker -- The court-martial of Lt. Henry O. Flipper : an example of Black-White relationships in the Army, 1881 / Bruce J. Dinges -- The Black Seminole



Indian scouts in the Big Bend / Thomas A. Britten -- Black soldiers at Fort Hays, Kansas, 1867-69 : a study in civilian and military violence / James N. Leiker -- Black soldiers on the White frontier : some factors influencing race relations / Frank N. Schubert -- Rio Grande City : prelude to the Brownsville raid / Garna L. Christian -- The Houston riot of 1917, revisited / C. Calvin Smith -- Improbable ambassadors : Black soldiers at Fort Douglas, 1896-99 / Michael J. Clark -- Putting the army on wheels : the story of the Twenty-fifth Infantry Bicycle Corps / Charles M. Dollar -- The Black soldier-athlete in the U.S. Army, 1890-1916 / Marvin E. Fletcher -- Community building on the border : the role of the Twenty-fourth Infantry Band at Columbus, New Mexico, 1916-22 / Horace Daniel Nash -- Buffalo soldiers : a bibliography / Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles.