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		The Buffalo Soldiers A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition by Shirley A. Leckie, William H. Leckie $29.95
ISBN: 0-8061-3523-9 Hardcover, 6 x 9 336 pages 36 b&w illustrations, 4 maps Published: 2003

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Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie's The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. In this revised edition, the authors further explore the lives of buffalo soldiers in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments, showing that they were increasingly confident in their fighting ability and, above all, determined to prove themselves worthy of their newly entitled citizenship.
Before William Leckie's groundbreaking work, buffalo soldiers had been relegated to historical obscurity. Thirty-six years later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers is a classic. Now, in a newly revised edition, the authors expand the original research.

Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition, delves further into the social impact of being an African American soldier in the nineteenth century. This work also explores the experiences of the soldiers' families at frontier posts. In a new epilogue, the authors summarize developments in the lives of buffalo soldiers after the Indian Wars and discuss contemporary efforts to memorialize them in film, art, and architecture.

"Other scholars have written histories of the black troops, but none has really enlarged or departed from Leckie's original framework and history."- Durwood Ball, Editor of New Mexico Historical Review and author of Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861

William H. Leckie, Retired Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of History at the University of Toledo, is the co-author, with Shirley A. Leckie, of Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin Grierson and his Family (OU Press). Shirley A. Leckie, Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, is the author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth and Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian, both published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

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