Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers : Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest / by John P. Langellier.
Publisher:
University of North Texas Press
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xiii, 436 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Introduction "Cadet Gray, and Army Blue" -- "In Dixie Land Whar I Was Born" -- "Benny Havens, Oh!" -- "Ere the Fair Land of Texas" -- "Oh, It's Old Arizona" -- "Oh, The Dragoon Bold!" -- "Regular Army Oh!" -- "We're Fighting Bulls of the Buffaloes" -- "We Went to Arizona for to Fight the Indians There" -- "Girl I Left Behind" -- Epilogue "Fiddler's Green".
Summary:
"Book is a biography of US Army Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, a young white man who graduated from West Point last in his class in 1884 and was assigned to the 10th US Cavalry, an African-American troop in the Southwest United States. He caught the attention of artist Frederic Remington, who included him and his troopers in many artworks. He was awarded a Medal of Honor for rescuing one of his troopers during a shoot out with Comanches. Clarke drowned in the Big Horn River in 1893"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
North Texas military biography and memoir series ; 19
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