The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877

by Paul H. Carlson

Book Overview

In the middle of the arid summer of 1877, a drought year in West Texas, a troop of some forty buffalo soldiers (African American cavalry led by white officers) struck out into the Llano Estacado from Double Lakes, south of modern Lubbock, pursuing a band of Kwahada Comanches who had been raiding homesteads and hunting parties. A group of twenty-two buffalo hunters accompanied the soldiers as guides and allies.

Several days later three black...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623496500
• ISBN13: 9781623496500
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"