The Last Buffalo Soldier

Author : Michael S. Nuckols
Publisher : Noisy Goose Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : William H. Leckie,Shirley A. Leckie
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806183893

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The Buffalo Soldiers by William H. Leckie,Shirley A. Leckie Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Howard Carlson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Tanya Landman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : African American girls
ISBN : 1406314595

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Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman Pdf

At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave - is ostensibly freed. But then her adopted mother is raped and lynched at the hands of a mob and Charley is left alone. In a terrifyingly lawless land, where the colour of a person's skin can bring violent death, Charley disguises herself as a man and joins the army. Soon, she's sent to the prairies to fight a whole new war against the 'savage Indians'. Trapped in a world of injustice and inequality, it's only when Charley is posted to Apache territory that she begins to learn what it is to be truly free.

Author : Chris Bohjalian
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375725463

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The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant presents a resonant novel about the unconventional family that forms after Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont storm trooper and his wife grieving the loss of their twin daughters, take in a foster child. His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and African American. And he has passed through so many indifferent families that he can’t believe that his new one will last. In the ensuing months Terry and Laura will struggle to emerge from their shell of grief only to face an unexpected threat to their marriage; Terry’s involvement with another woman. Meanwhile, Alfred cautiously enters the family circle, and befriends an elderly neighbor who inspires him with the story of the buffalo soldiers, the black cavalrymen of the old West. Out of the entwining and unfolding of their lives, The Buffalo Soldier creates a suspenseful, moving portrait of a family, infused by Bohjalian’s moral complexity and narrative assurance.

Author : Brian G. Shellum
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Maurice Broaddus
Publisher : Tor.com
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765394286

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Buffalo Soldier by Maurice Broaddus Pdf

Read the steampunk adventure the New York Times called a "wild, satisfying ride." Having stumbled onto a plot within his homeland of Jamaica, former espionage agent, Desmond Coke, finds himself caught between warring religious and political factions, all vying for control of a mysterious boy named Lij Tafari. Wanting the boy to have a chance to live a free life, Desmond assumes responsibility for him and they flee. But a dogged enemy agent remains ever on their heels, desperate to obtain the secrets held within Lij for her employer alone. Assassins, intrigue, and steammen stand between Desmond and Lij as they search for a place to call home in a North America that could have been. Buffalo Soldier is a steampunk adventure from Maurice Broaddus. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Julia Garstecki
Publisher : Bolt!
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1680720007

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Buffalo Soldiers by Julia Garstecki Pdf

Many used to believe that non-white people weren't smart enough to be soldiers. Others thought women weren't tough enough to fly planes. But those people were wrong. Learn how African Americans, American Indians, and other groups bravely fought for their country. And they did it when no one believed they could. Book jacket.

Author : Sherry Garland
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1589803914

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The Buffalo Soldier by Sherry Garland Pdf

Realizing that his future lies in owning land, not just being free, a young man raised as a slave becomes a buffalo soldier--a member of an all-black cavalry regiment formed to protect white settlers from Indians, bandits, and outlaws, and that later fought in the Spanish American War. Includes historical note.

Author : Sharon K. Solomon
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN : 1589808010

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Cathy Williams, Buffalo Soldier by Sharon K. Solomon Pdf

Cathy Williams, an unskilled former slave, disguised herself as a man and joined the Buffalo Soldiers, a deception that went unnoticed for years, confirming her as the only female on record to serve in the African-American cavalry unit.

Author : Barbara Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X004465434

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My Buffalo Soldier by Barbara Reeves Pdf

A Love story unlike anything you've ever read Sergeant Nick Balfours, a black man born in Louisiana but raised in Europe, has only six months left of his five-year post-Civil War enlistment in the famous Ninth Cavalry when Enid Jamison, a white Confederate widow, arrives to throw his life into turmoil. Nick is drawn to Enid much against his will. Even though she is the most beautiful and captivating woman he's ever seen, he steels his resolve to put her out of his mind. She is a white woman. Forbidden. But in matters of the heart, there is no color line, and Enid and Nick fall deeply in love. But will the prejudice and bigotry of the Reconstruction South kill the love these two remarkable people feel for each other?

Author : Ollen Hunt
Publisher : Publishing Consultants
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Robert O'Connor
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Americans
ISBN : 0330412914

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Buffalo Soldiers by Robert O'Connor Pdf

Set in West Germany in 1989 before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Buffalo Soldiers follows the misadventures of specialist Ray Elwood (Joaquin Pheonix), scammer, con-artist and US Army Base Battalion clerk. Elwood runs a blackmarket operation behind the back of Supply and Logistics Commander Lieutenant Colonel Wallace Berman (Ed Harris), that is until the military brass send in battle-hardened Commanding Sgt. Robert Lee (Scott Glenn) to close down Elwood's illicit operation. Things become still more complex when Elwood learns that his new love Robyn (Anna Paquin) is Sgt. Lee's daughter. The novel deals with the issues of warfare when there is no war and peacetime casualties. In the tradition of MASH it is funny and dark, exciting and thrilling. 'This book may well find a place on the shelf with Joseph Heller's Catch-22... It takes a fine novelist to tell such a sordid story so beautifully - and a brave one to hold out no hope for redemption but the jolting effect of a cold-eyed look at the truth' New York Times Book Review

Author : Tamra Orr
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781545750421

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The Buffalo Soldiers by Tamra Orr Pdf

As peacekeepers on American soil and as soldiers fighting the Spanish-American War, the Buffalo Soldiers saved lives and gave their own to help the United States grow. Find out what roles they played, and how, as soldiers, they took a major step toward desegregating the military and in gaining civil rights for future generations.

Author : Terry J. Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1575323508

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The Last of the Buffalo Soldiers by Terry J. Robinson Pdf