TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flipper,Henry Ossian
AU  - Harris,Theodore D.
TI  - Black frontiersman: the memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, first Black graduate of West Point 
SN  - 0875651712
AV  - F786 .F575 1997
U1  - 355/.0092 21
PY  - 0000///
CY  - Fort Worth
PB  - Texas Christian University Press
KW  - Flipper, Henry Ossian,
KW  - Pioneers
KW  - Southwest, New
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American pioneers
KW  - African American soldiers
KW  - African Americans
KW  - African American military cadets
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - West Point
KW  - Military cadets
KW  - United States
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Cavalerie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Frontier
KW  - New Southwest
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-180) and index; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0603/96040449.html
ER  -