Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

• Glasrud, Bruce A.
• Searles, Michael N., 1942-

Description

vi, 319 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• United States. Army > African American troops > History
• 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.) > Biography
• Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
• West (U.S.) > Race relations
• West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890
• West (U.S.) > History > 1890-1945

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-300) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

Sc E 07-1134

ISBN

• 9781585446124 (alk. paper)
• 1585446122 (alk. paper)
• 9781585446209 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1585446203 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007003202

OCLC

81941291

Title

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

Imprint

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

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-300) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Glasrud, Bruce A.

Searles, Michael N., 1942-

Research Call Number

Sc E 07-1134