During the growing Civil Rights movement of the 1960s such publications as Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones’ groundbreaking 1965 The Negro Cowboys and William Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers, released the following year, began to address the little studied area of blacks in the West. Now, eminent scholars Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles add to the field with their impressive anthology Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge (University of Oklahoma Press, $24.95) with a foreword by respected historian Albert S. Broussard. The collaboration of this noteworthy trio assures readers that the thirteen far-ranging essays published in this paperback are top-notch.
—John P. Langellier, author of Fighting For Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army
– Courtesy Library of Congress –
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