James Beckwourth
Author: Sean Dolan
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the life and career of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, and trader.
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Black Frontiersman
Author: Henry Ossian Flipper
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Senator Albert Bacon Fall, and his later recollections on race and politics in the 1930s.
Jim Beckwourth
Author: Elinor Wilson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1980-12-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780806115559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Portrays the life and adventures of the freedman, frontiersman, and fur trader who became a Crow warrior
Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality
Author: Elizabeth D. Leonard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-08-23
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 039306039X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Framed by Appomattox in 1865 and the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, packed with individuals' stories, details of battles fought and descriptions of army life, Men of Color to Arms! examines black soldiers' contributions to America's post-Civil War expansion and consolidation and sheds light on the myriad obstacles the buffalo soldiers faced.' (Publisher)
A Stranger and a Sojourner
Author: Billy D. Higgins
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2005-09-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1557288054
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The extraordinary story of a pioneering African-American community leader is now told. After serving in the War of 1812, Peter Caulder, a free African-American settler in the Arkansas territory, has his life turned upside down on the eve of the Civil War.
Black and Brown
Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2005-02
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 081473667X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on archives on both sides of the border, the author chronicles the political currents which created and then undermined the Mexican border as a relative safe haven for African Americans.
The Trials of Henry Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point
Author: Don Cusic
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-10-16
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0786480424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Born in 1856 in Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Ossian Flipper was nine at the end of the Civil War. His parents, part of a privileged upper class of slaves, were allowed to operate an independent business under the protection of their owner. This placed Henry in an excellent position to take advantage of new educational opportunities opening up to African Americans and he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877. Flipper served at Fort Sill in what is now Oklahoma; took part in the Indian Wars; and served at Fort Davis in Texas, where a court-martial relating to missing funds ended his Army career with a dishonorable discharge. He later was an assistant to the Secretary of the Interior during the early 1920s Harding administration, and died in 1940. Investigations into the circumstances of Flipper’s court-martial resulted in an upgrade to honorable discharge in 1976 and a posthumous pardon from President Clinton in 1999. Passages from Flipper’s 1878 autobiography and excerpts from contemporary military reports and newspaper articles contribute firsthand observations to this biography of West Point’s first black graduate.
Free Frank
Author: Juliet E.K. Walker
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-10-21
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0813184150
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary. We first learn details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. We know that he married Lucy, a slave on a neighboring farm, in 1799. Later he was allowed to hire out his time, and when his owner moved to Tennessee, Frank was left in charge of the Kentucky farm. During the War of 1812, he set up his own saltpeter works, an enterprise he maintained until he left Kentucky. In 1817 he purchased his wife's freedom for $800; two years later he bought his own liberty for the same price. Now free, he expanded his activities, purchasing land and dealing in livestock. With his wife and four of his children, Free Frank left Kentucky in 1830 to settle on a new frontier. In Pike County, Illinois, he purchased a farm and later, in 1836, platted and successfully promoted the town of New Philadelphia. The desire for freedom was an obvious spur to his commercial efforts. Through his lifetime of work he purchased the liberty of sixteen members of his family at a cost of nearly $14,000. Goods and services commanded a premium in the life of the frontier. Free Frank's career shows what an exceptional man, through working against great odds, could accomplish through industry, acumen, and aggressiveness. His story suggests a great deal about business activity and legal practices, as well as racial conditions, on the frontier. Juliet Walker has performed a task of historical detection in recreating the life of Free Frank from family traditions, limited personal papers, public documents, and secondary sources. In doing so, she has added a significant chapter to the history of African Americans.
The Fall of a Black Army Officer
Author: Charles M. Robinson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2014-10-22
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0806186283
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A court-martial board acquitted Flipper of the embezzlement charge but convicted him of conduct unbecoming. He was then dismissed from the service of the United States. The Flipper case became known as something of an American Dreyfus Affair, emblematic of racism in the frontier army. Because of Flipper’s efforts to clear his name, many assumed that he had been railroaded because he was black. In The Fall of a Black Army Officer, Charles M. Robinson III challenges that assumption. In this complete revision of his earlier work, The Court-Martial of Lieutenant Henry Flipper, Robinson finds that Flipper was the author of his own problems. The taint of racism on the Flipper affair became so widely accepted that in 1999 President Bill Clinton issued a posthumous pardon for Flipper. The Fall of a Black Army Officer boldly moves the arguments regarding racism--in both Lt. Flipper’s case and the frontier army in general--beyond political correctness. Solidly grounded in archival research, it is a thorough and provocative reassessment of the Flipper affair, at last revealing the truth.
Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico
Author: George H. Junne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2000-05-30
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 0313065055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Through their families, communities, and institutions, these Western Blacks left behind a long history, which is just now beginning to receive systematic scholarly treatment. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history. Entries are organized both geographically and topically, and cover a broad range of subjects including cross-cultural interaction, health, art, and law. Contains a complete compilation of African-American newspapers.
