Title: Black frontiersman
First published: 1997
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Theodore D. Harris' Negro Frontiersman includes a new introduction, expanded endnotes and little known and previously unpublished materials.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.
Subjects: Biography, Race relations, Frontier and pioneer life, African American pioneers, African American military cadets, Pioneers, African Americans, African American soldiers, Military cadets, African americans, biography, United states, armed forces, african americans, Frontier and pioneer life, southwest, new
Places: New Southwest, West Point, New York (State)
People: Henry Ossian Flipper (1856-1940)
LC classification: F786 .F575 1997