Title: Faraway blue
First published: 1999
Description: A fictionalized account of a real-life, 19th century black soldier who fought against the Indians in New Mexico. He is Moses Williams, an ex-slave serving as sergeant in the Ninth Cavalry, and facing him is the great Apache warrior, Nana.
Subjects: African American soldiers, African American troops, Fiction, Indians of North America, United States, United States. Army, United States. Army. Cavalry, 9th, Warm Spring Apache Indians, Wars, History, Indians of north america, fiction, New mexico, fiction, African americans, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, westerns, Fiction, historical, general
Places: New Mexico
People: Moses Williams (d. 1899), Nana Apache chief (ca. 1806-1896)
Time periods: 1866-1895