The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West
By William H. Leckie
1967 - University of Oklahoma Press-Norman
ISBN: 0-8061-1244-1
The long-neglected story of the courage and devotion to duty of the Buffalo Soldiers adds a new dimension to frontier history. Negro soldiers who wanted to remain in the U.S. Army after the Civil War were organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Their service in controlling hostile Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty ears was as invaluable as it was unrecognized. The men of these two regiments were dubbed "buffalo soldiers" by their Indian opponents. They were proud of this title, and the most prominent feature of the Tenth Cavalry’s regimental crest was the figure of a buffalo.
The Black Regulars 1866-1898
William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips
2001 - University of Oklahoma Press – Norman
ISBN: 0-8061-3340-6
Black soldiers first entered the regular army of the United States in the summer of 1866. While their segregated regiments served in the American West for the next three decades, the promise of the Reconstruction era gave way to the repressiveness of Jim Crow. But black men found a degree of equality in the service: the army treated them no worse than it did their white counterparts. The Black Regulars uses army correspondence, court martial transcripts, and pension applications to tell who these men were, often in their own words.
The San Sabá Mission – Spanish Pivot in Texas
Robert S. Weddle
1990 – Texas A&M Press
Originally published by University of Texas Press, 1964
ISBN: 0-89096-911-6
The Spanish approach to the occupation of eighteenth-century Texas embraced the triad of mission, presidio, and settlement. In founding communities, Franciscan missionaries sought to convert the natives to Christianity and make them productive Spanish citizens. By midcentury, however, change was in the offing.
The turning point was the San Sabá Mission disaster and the ensuing military campaign to punish the Indians responsible. In 1758, the mission, near present-day Menard, was destroyed with the loss of several lives, including two of the missionaries, less than a year after its founding.The San Sabá Mission recounts some of the most sensational events in Spanish-Texas history in an intriguing and entertaining voice. A new introduction to this 1964 classic describes the findings of archaeologists after the mission site, not previously known, was discovered and excavated in the early 1990s.
The Military Handbook & Soldier’s Manual of Information
Beadle and Company
New York, 1861
Available as a modern facsimile edition of the original 1861 edition by Dr. Louis Le Grand, this book is a fascinating and useful reference for those interested in the Civil War era. Information includes the Official Articles of War, Instructions to Volunteers, Army Regulations for Camp and Service; Ration and Pay Lists; General Rules and Orders on All Occasions; Hints on Food and Its Preparation; Health Department, with Valuable Remedies and Instructions, as well as a dictionary of military terms.
Young Troopers – Stories of Army Children on the Frontier
Paige Ramsey-Palmer
1997 - Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Tucson, Arizona
ISBN: 1-877856-68-1
The frontier was a great place to grow up one hundred years ago: wide open spaces, fresh air – and plenty of action! In Young Troopers, you’ll read about real people who traveled west with the army, meeting Indians and living through adventures we can only imagine today. Packed with historic photos and authentic illustrations that you make you taste life in the wilderness, Young Troopers puts you on the frontier.
Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880
by Robert F. Pace and Donald S. Frazier
2004 - State House Press, McMurry University, Abilene, TX
ISBN 1-880510-83-9
Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880 tells the epic story of western Texas. The geography of the land – a wind-swept and sun-drenched prairie- made it a natural border between regions of settlement throughout most of its existence. Competing for that borderland for centuries were millions of bison and the nomadic Plains Indians who followed them. Then came the Spanish explorers, and the Americans with their forts, settlements, and cattle. With this mix of competitors, the region’s history was one of conflict and survival. The authors tell this dramatic story in a flowing style that brings these complex forces together into a single narrative.
Frontier Regulars – The United States Army and the Indian 1866-1891
by Robert M. Utley
1973 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London
ISBN 0-8032-9551-0
In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War.
The Colonel’s Lady on the Western Frontier
The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson
Edited and with an introduction by Shirley Anne Leckie
1989 - University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 0-8032-7929-9
The modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel’s lady spent most of her life at army outposts on the nineteenth-century western frontier, where she faced the problems of raising a large family while fulfilling the duties of a commanding officer’s wife. Fortunately for history, she left a large and extraordinary candid correspondence, which has now been edited by Shirley Anne Leckie.
I Married a Soldier
Lydia Spencer Lane, with an Introduction by Darlis A. Miller
1987 - The University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 0-8263-0934-8
From 1854 until her husband’s retirement in 1870, Lydia Lane crossed the Great Plains by wagon seven times, traveled nearly 8,000 miles, and became accustomed to tours of duty that required the family to move at least every six months. The mother of three children born on the frontier, Lane provides a pleasing account of f the domestic side of Army life. Although she chronicles important facets of military life, she also raises issues of interest to women’s history, such as giving birth on the overland trail, health care and the raising of young children, and the independence of frontier women. The book is also valuable because of Lane’s description of Baylor’s invasion and her comments on James Magoffin, Kit Carson, and General H. H. Sibley.