The author uniquely presents an informative and lively narrative of frontier army life of a black regiment in the late 1870s through the chronicles of John Bigelow, a young Cavalry lieutenant in Texas. The book addresses the arduous life of these "Buffalo Soldiers" often stationed in small, ramshackle posts in the hottest areas of the country. Kinevan also examines the attitudes towards black soldiers and how these changed when black and white soldiers fought common foes side by side.
ISBN 0-87404-243-7, cloth, $35.00
6x9, 450 pg. biblio. 1998
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