Flipper, Henry Ossian,  1856-1940. <br/><br/>
Black frontiersman :  the memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, first Black graduate of West Point / 
compiled and edited with introduction and notes by Theodore D. Harris. 
 - Fort Worth :  Texas Christian University Press,   
 - 190 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-180) and index. 
<br/><br/>1. The Western Memoirs -- 2. Army and Civilian Letters -- 3. Two Black Frontiersmen: Henry Flipper and Estevanico -- 4. Legend of the Black Robin Hood of the Borderlands: Henry Flipper and Pancho Villa -- 5. The Path to Capitol Hill -- 6. Flipper's Later Recollections and Views on Race and Politics, 1936-1940. 
<br/><br/> Flipper was the first black graduate from West Point and served in the Tenth Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma before being dishonarbly discharged in 1882. He went on to be a mining engineer, surveyor, congressional aide, translator, and writer. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0875651712 9780875651712 0875652824 9780875652825 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96040449 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Flipper, Henry Ossian, 1856-1940. <br/>Flipper, Henry Ossian, 1856-1940 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pioneers--Southwest, New--Biography.<br/>African American pioneers--Southwest, New--Biography.<br/>African American soldiers--Southwest, New--Biography.<br/>African Americans--Southwest, New--Biography.<br/>African American military cadets--New York (State)--West Point--Biography.<br/>Military cadets--United States--Biography.<br/>Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New.<br/>African American military cadets.<br/>African American pioneers.<br/>African American soldiers.<br/>African Americans.<br/>Frontier and pioneer life.<br/>Military cadets.<br/>Pioneers.<br/>Race relations.<br/>Cavalerie.<br/>Frontier.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Southwest, New--Race relations.<br/>New York (State)--West Point.<br/>New Southwest.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Autobiographies.<br/>Biographies.<br/>Biography.<br/>Autobiographies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F786  / .F575 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>355/.0092 B