The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West

Politics & Social Sciences

Leckie, William H.

Social Sciences

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967

1999. Univ. of Oklahoma Press., 290 pages. 1 lb 4 oz. ( 8 x 5.5 x 1 inches Paperback) . Title: The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West by William H. Leckie. ISBN#0806112441. History

History

Americas

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers," and his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring raid through Mississippi, which helped Ulysses S. Grant launch his successful campaign against Vicksburg. In the army reorganization of 1866, Grierson accepted an appointment as colonel of the Tenth Cavalry, a command of white officers and black enlisted men. In this biography, William and Shirley Leckie explore three generations of Griersonâ€™s family, and for this edition they include a new preface on recent interest in the Buffalo Soldiers.

Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin H. Grierson and His Family

Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers," and his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring raid through Mississippi, which helped Ulysses S. Grant launch his successful campaign against Vicksburg. In the army reorganization of 1866, Grierson accepted an appointment as colonel of the Tenth Cavalry, a command of white officers and black enlisted men. In this biography, William and Shirley Leckie explore three generations of Grierson’s family, and for this edition they include a new preface on recent interest in the Buffalo Soldiers.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leckie, Shirley A.

Historical

University of Oklahoma Press

Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers has become a classic. Now, in a newly revised edition, the authors have expanded the original research to explore more deeply the lives of buffalo soldiers in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments.
Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, this edition delves further into the life of an African American soldier in the nineteenth century. It also explores the experiences of soldiers’ families at frontier posts. In a new epilogue, the authors summarize developments in the lives of buffalo soldiers after the Indian Wars and discuss contemporary efforts to memorialize them in film, art, and architecture.

The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition

African Americans in the West: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources (Occasional Papers (Sul Ross State University. Center for Big Bend Studies), No. 2.)

Reference

Glasrud, Bruce A.

Champion, Laurie

Stewart, Tasha B.

Smith-Savage, Sheron

Sul Ross State University Center for Big Bend Studies

Catalogs & Directories

Sul Ross Univ Center for Big Bend

The Military Conquest of the Southern Plains

Univ. of Oklahoma Press

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