Scouting With The Buffalo Soldiers. Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, And The Tenth U. S. Cavalry In The Southwest

JOHN P. LANGELLIER

Publication: University of North Texas Press, 2020, Denton

First edition. 8vo. Light blue paper over boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xiii [blank], 436 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated, portraits, plates, drawings, map, epilogue, endnotes, bibliography, index. The story of Powhatan Henry Clarke, a member of the U. S. Military Academy's Class of 1884. Clarke graduated dead last with his combined low grade-point average and high demerit list. He obtained a commission with the black troops of the Tenth Cavalry, earning his spurs with the "Buffalo Soldiers." Encounters and friendships with people such as Frederic Remington, Geronimo, the Apache Kid, "Texas John Slaughter and a host of others did much to enhance his reputation as a fearless field commander at the troop level, gaining glory and first-hand knowledge of what it took to campaign in the West. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

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