Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology

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tableofcontents Preface 1 Introduction Western Black Soldiers since The Buffalo Soldiers: A Review of the Literature bruce a. glasrud 5 I. TheOfficersandtheTroops 31 Fort Riley’s Black Soldiers and the Army’s Changing Role in the West, 1867–85 william a. dobak 35 William R. Shafter, Black Troops, and the Opening of the Llano Estacado, 1870–75 paul h. carlson 51 Buffalo Soldier Chaplains of the Old West alan k. lamm 68 “Dress on the Colors, Boys!” Black Noncommissioned Officers in the Regular Army, 1866–98 douglas c. mcchristian 84 II. TheBlackSoldier 97 Cathay Williams: Black Woman Soldier, 1866–68 deanne blanton 101 One Soldier’s Service: Caleb Benson in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, 1875–1908 thomas r. buecker 114 The Court-Martial of Lt. Henry O. Flipper: An Example of Black-White Relationships in the Army, 1881 bruce j. dinges 129 The Black Seminole Indian Scouts in the Big Bend thomas a. britten 143 III.DiscriminationandViolence 153 Black Soldiers at Fort Hays, Kansas, 1867–69: A Study in Civilian and Military Violence james n. leiker 157 Black Soldiers on the White Frontier: Some Factors Influencing Race Relations frank n. schubert 176 Rio Grande City: Prelude to the Brownsville Raid garna l. christian 185 The Houston Riot of 1917, Revisited c. calvin smith 197 IV.CommunityofSoldiers 217 Improbable Ambassadors: Black Soldiers at Fort Douglas, 1896–99 michael j. clark 221 Putting the Army on Wheels: The Story of the Twenty-fifth Infantry Bicycle Corps charles m. dollar 242 The Black Soldier-Athlete in the U.S. Army, 1890–1916 marvin e. fletcher 257 Community Building on the Border: The Role of the Twenty-fourth Infantry Band at Columbus, New Mexico, 1916–22 horace daniel nash 267 Buffalo Soldiers: A Bibliography bruce a. glasrud and michael n. searles 277 Contributors 301 Permissions 303 Index 305 vi Contents BuffaloSoldiersintheWest ...