Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers : Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest / John P. Langellier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langellier, John P., author.

Series:

Number 19 in the North Texas military biography and memoir series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Wars.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 436 pages, [15] pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ;

Place of Publication:

Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2020]

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.

Contents:

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".

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-57441-811-4

OCLC:

1229137990