Buffalo Soldiers In Alaska

Author : Brian G. Shellum
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496228871

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Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska by Brian G. Shellum Pdf

The town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in under a year due to the Klondike gold rush. Balanced on the edge of anarchy, the U.S. Army stationed Company L, a unit of Buffalo Soldiers, there near the end of the gold rush. Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska tells the story of these African American soldiers who kept the peace during a volatile period in America’s resource-rich North. It is a fascinating tale that features white officers and Black soldiers safeguarding U.S. territory, supporting the civil authorities, protecting Native Americans, fighting natural disasters, and serving proudly in America’s last frontier. Despite the discipline and contributions of soldiers who served honorably, Skagway exhibited the era’s persistent racism and maintained a clear color line. However, these Black Regulars carried out their complex and sometimes contradictory mission with a combination of professionalism and restraint that earned the grudging respect of the independently minded citizens of Alaska. The company used the popular sport of baseball to connect with the white citizens of Skagway and in the process gained some measure of acceptance. Though the soldiers left little trace in Skagway, a few remained after their enlistments and achieved success and recognition after settling in other parts of Alaska.

Author : Brian G. Shellum
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496228864

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Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska by Brian G. Shellum Pdf

The town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in under a year due to the Klondike gold rush. Balanced on the edge of anarchy, the U.S. Army stationed Company L, a unit of Buffalo Soldiers, there near the end of the gold rush. Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska tells the story of these African American soldiers who kept the peace during a volatile period in America's resource-rich North. It is a fascinating tale that features white officers and Black soldiers safeguarding U.S. territory, supporting the civil authorities, protecting Native Americans, fighting natural disasters, and serving proudly in America's last frontier. Despite the discipline and contributions of soldiers who served honorably, Skagway exhibited the era's persistent racism and maintained a clear color line. However, these Black Regulars carried out their complex and sometimes contradictory mission with a combination of professionalism and restraint that earned the grudging respect of the independently minded citizens of Alaska. The company used the popular sport of baseball to connect with the white citizens of Skagway and in the process gained some measure of acceptance. Though the soldiers left little trace in Skagway, a few remained after their enlistments and achieved success and recognition after settling in other parts of Alaska.

Author : Michael S. Nuckols
Publisher : Noisy Goose Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781511517997

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The Last Buffalo Soldier by Michael S. Nuckols Pdf

After the war, Willis Atkins receives no hero's welcome at his new post in Georgia - until he meets Dolores Williams. A tragic romance and multi-generational saga spanning the 1940s to the 1990s. First-Sergeant Willis Atkins survived the war in Europe only to encounter violent racism at his new post in rural Georgia. As Truman integrates the Army and the war in Korea ignites, he falls for a defiant and outspoken nurse while managing a ramshackle cadre of black cavalrymen. Decades later, as his heart begins to fail, he reflects on those tumultuous years as he struggles to inspire his rebellious grand-daughter and a troubled inner-city boy. Revised and expanded edition, February 28th 2017

Author : Brian Shellum
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803230224

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Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment by Brian Shellum Pdf

An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (18641922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superintendent, the first black U.S. military attachÉ, the first African American officer to command a Regular Army regiment, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment tells the story of the man who-willingly or not-served as a standard-bearer for his race in the officer corps for nearly thirty years, and who, if not for racial prejudice, would have become the first African American general.

Author : Ian C. Hartman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0996583785

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Black History in the Last Frontier by Ian C. Hartman Pdf

Author : Ollen Hunt
Publisher : Publishing Consultants
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594330441

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Buffalo Soldier by Ollen Hunt Pdf

Early black infantry regiments were nicknamed Buffalo Soldiers by Native Americans, symbolizing the respect they had for the African-American soldier's bravery and valor. For more than 150 years these descendants of kings and queens, chiefs, leaders, and people of Africa have distinguished themselves with desire, dedication, and discipline. Ollen Hunt, one of the last Buffalo Soldiers, writes in this book about what America has done for him, and what he has done for America. His story is one of desire, dedication, and discipline; of bravery and valor. Throughout his life Ollen has distinguished himself: in the Civilian Conservation Corp, US Army, business, husband and father, and community leader. He has been a true soldier in every aspect of his life. He's shown that regardless of humble beginnings, prejudice, war, and other handicaps and hardships of life, a man can succeed if he adopts the attitude of the early Buffalo Soldier's slogan: deeds, not words! Buffalo Soldier is an uplifting biography and an example of hope for young and old alike.

Author : Patricia Reid-Merritt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216148890

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A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States [2 volumes] by Patricia Reid-Merritt Pdf

Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states. From the initial impact of European settlement on indigenous populations to the racial divides caused by immigration and police shootings in the 21st century, each American state has imposed some form of racial restriction on its residents. The United States proclaims a belief in freedom and justice for all, but members of various minority racial groups have often faced a different reality, as seen in such examples as the forcible dispossession of indigenous peoples during the Trail of Tears, Jim Crow laws' crushing discrimination of blacks, and the manifest unfairness of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Including the District of Columbia, the 51 entries in these two volumes cover the state-specific histories of all of the major minority and immigrant groups in the United States, including African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Every state has had a unique experience in attempting to build a community comprising multiple racial groups, and the chronologies, narratives, and biographies that compose the entries in this collection explore the consequences of racism from states' perspectives, revealing distinct new insights into their respective racial histories.

Author : Margaret Merritt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0982839227

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Roshier H. Creecy: a Black Man's Search for Freedom and Prosperity in the Koyukuk Gold Fields of Alaska by Margaret Merritt Pdf

Born in 1866, Roshier H. Creecy enlisted in the Buffalo Soldiers. He joined the Klondike Gold Rush, then mushed his dog team to the Koyukuk gold fields where he found a sense of belonging and lived free of societal constraints.

Author : Jonathan M. Nielson, Ph.D.
Publisher : Academica Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781680530582

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History of Alaska , Volume I by Jonathan M. Nielson, Ph.D. Pdf

As a unique, distant geographical region of the United States, Alaska has evolved from military insignificance to high strategic priority in the 142 years since its purchase from Russia in 1867. The reasons for this dramatic shift derive from a correlation of geography, foreign policy, domestic politics, and military technology. Historically the role of the armed forces in Alaska has been large and diverse. Alaska was one of the two principal territorial purchases made by the United States between 1803 and 1867 adding nearly 1.5 million square miles to America’s national domain. Smaller by the size of Texas than Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, Alaska, unlike all of the territories and states carved out of the former, languished in obscurity and isolation, and was administered as a colonial dependency by the military and other branches of the federal government, its official ‘territorial status’ and government notwithstanding. While sharing many common aspects of frontier settlement and Western history with territories such as Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Colorado, Alaska presented special challenges peculiar to a non-contiguous arctic and sub-Arctic environment, separated from the United States by a foreign power. Indeed, only the defeated South under Reconstruction experienced the same degree of military occupation and martial law. Alaska also has the unique distinction in the American experience of belonging to Imperial Russia before it became of interest to American expansionists. Still others found Alaska tempting and pursued their own designs North of '53. The Spanish, British, Canadians, and even the French plied Alaska’s waters and made their claims to Alyeska- the Great Land. And it is with these clashing imperial ambitions that this three-volume history begins.

Author : William H. Leckie
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : 0806112441

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The Buffalo Soldiers by William H. Leckie Pdf

Negro soldiers who wanted to remain in the United States Army after the Civil War were organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Their service in controlling hostile Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unrecognized.

Author : Paul Howard Carlson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603446693

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The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877 by Paul Howard Carlson Pdf

The year 1877 was a drought year in West Texas. That summer, some forty buffalo soldiers struck out into the Llano Estacado, pursuing a band of raiding Comanches. Several days later they were missing and presumed dead from thirst. Although most of the soldiers straggled back into camp, four died, and others faced court-martial for desertion. Here, Carlson provides insight into the interaction of soldiers, hunters, settlers, and Indians on the Staked Plains.

Author : Steven Rinella
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780385526852

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American Buffalo by Steven Rinella Pdf

From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.” A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination. In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful—Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainside and then raft the meat back to civilization while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. Throughout these adventures, Rinella found himself contemplating his own place among the 14,000 years’ worth of buffalo hunters in North America, as well as the buffalo’s place in the American experience. At the time of the Revolutionary War, North America was home to approximately 40 million buffalo, the largest herd of big mammals on the planet, but by the mid-1890s only a few hundred remained. Now that the buffalo is on the verge of a dramatic ecological recovery across the West, Americans are faced with the challenge of how, and if, we can dare to share our land with a beast that is the embodiment of the American wilderness. American Buffalo is a narrative tale of Rinella’s hunt. But beyond that, it is the story of the many ways in which the buffalo has shaped our national identity. Rinella takes us across the continent in search of the buffalo’s past, present, and future: to the Bering Land Bridge, where scientists search for buffalo bones amid artifacts of the New World’s earliest human inhabitants; to buffalo jumps where Native Americans once ran buffalo over cliffs by the thousands; to the Detroit Carbon works, a “bone charcoal” plant that made fortunes in the late 1800s by turning millions of tons of buffalo bones into bone meal, black dye, and fine china; and even to an abattoir turned fashion mecca in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, where a depressed buffalo named Black Diamond met his fate after serving as the model for the American nickel. Rinella’s erudition and exuberance, combined with his gift for storytelling, make him the perfect guide for a book that combines outdoor adventure with a quirky blend of facts and observations about history, biology, and the natural world. Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.

Author : Robert Allan Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN : 1948478145

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The Buffalo Soldier by Robert Allan Bauer Pdf

"Join Clarence Duval on Montana's Trail of Tears and experience the heartbreaking journey of the Métis people of Montana. It is now 1895 and Clarence is nineteen years old. When he loses his home in Montana, he heads east to St. Louis to meet his old friend, John Healy. Going with Clarence is John's niece Mary Healy, who's adopted Clarence as her father figure. From the moment they board the train, however, nothing goes right. In a case of mistaken identity, Clarence and Mary become separated. Clarence must join the 10th U.S. Cavalry, better known as the Buffalo Soldiers, while Mary becomes a refugee helped by their new friend Gabriel. While Clarence learns to be a soldier, the Buffalo Soldiers get the task of deporting the Métis and the Cree Indians from Montana to Canada. One trouble is that Gabriel is one of the deportees. Worst of all, Mary Healy faces deportation along with him. Share the story of one of the nineteenth century's forgotten catastrophes in the historical adventure The Buffalo Soldier. " -- book jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:772778204

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BUFFALO Soldiers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wayne Rudolph Davidson
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458219145

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Discombobulation by Wayne Rudolph Davidson Pdf

Wayne Rudolph Davidson delves deeper into his family history in this second book of his When Clans Collide trilogy. Exploring his own personal branch that stems from the genealogical trunk of the distinguished Davidson family tree, he writes from the perspective of an African-American male born in the post-World War II era caught in a firestorm of extraordinary social change, civil disturbance, and a burgeoning drug culture. His life runs in tandem with the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to urban centers in the North and historic events such as the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He seamlessly blends his family genealogy and his own mistakes and triumphs with American history. From being an unemployed autoworker living and working in a dark tunnel to positions of responsibility and authority as a member of the U.S. Army in strategic places around the world, in this book, the author gets a chance rarely given to African-American men: to tell his story before his peers instead of before a magistrate.