Black Frontiersman
Subtitle: The Memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point
By: compiled and edited with introduction and notes by Theodore D. Harris.
Contributors: Harris, Theodore D.
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Fort Worth
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Flipper, Henry Ossian, 1856-1940.; Pioneers -- Southwest, New -- Biography.; African American pioneers -- Southwest, New -- Biography.; African American soldiers -- Southwest, New -- Biography.; African Americans -- Southwest, New -- Biography.; African American military cadets -- New York (State) -- West Point -- Biography.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New.; Southwest, New -- Race relations.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Black Frontiersman is Flipper's autobiographical account of his service with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and his years as a civilian that followed - one of only a handful of such accounts by a black American.

Although Flipper's years on the western frontier have been well documented by historians, this revised and updated volume of Theodore D. Harris' Negro Frontiersman includes a new introduction, expanded endnotes and little known and previously unpublished materials. Flipper's memoirs detail his time spent on the U.S.-Mexican border, his adventures in Sonora and Chihuahua before the Mexican Revolution, his time as an aide to U.S.

Senator Albert Bacon Fall, and his later recollections on race and politics in the 1930s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-180) and index.