| Black Frontiersman: The Memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point Revised Edition Contributor(s): Harris, Theodore D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0875652824 ISBN-13: 9780875652825 Publisher: Texas Christian University Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2003 Annotation: After graduating as the first black from West Point in 1877, Henry O. Flipper was dismissed from the U.S. Army in 1882 following a financial scandal. He went on to enjoy a career as a land surveyor, scholar of mining and land laws, congressional aide, and writer and translator. Black Frontiersman is Flipper's account of his service with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and the years that followed. Flipper's memoir was first published in 1963 as Negro Frontiersman, edited by Theodore Harris. For this revised edition, Harris has added a new introduction, expanded the endnotes, and added previously unpublished material. Henry O. Flipper was posthumously vindleated, his discharge changed to honorable, and his body reburied with military honors. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Military - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 96040449 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6" W x 9" (0.67 lbs) 190 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After graduating as the first black from West Point in 1877, Henry O. Flipper was dismissed from the U.S. Army in 1882 following a financial scandal. He went on to enjoy a career as a land surveyor, scholar of mining and land laws, congressional aide, and writer and translator. Black Frontiersman is Flipper's account of his service with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and the years that followed. Flipper's memoir was first published in 1963 as Negro Frontiersman, edited by Theodore Harris. For this revised edition, Harris has added a new introduction, expanded the endnotes, and added previously unpublished material. Henry O. Flipper was posthumously vindicated, his discharge changed to honorable, and his body reburied with military honors. |