Bøger af Charles L. Kenner

The inclusion of the Ninth Cavalry and three other African American regiments in the post-Civil War army was one of the nation's most problematic social experiments. Charles Kenner's detailed biographies of officers and enlisted men describe the passions, aspirations, and conflicts that both bound blacks and white together and pulled them apart.

This is a history of the Comancheros, or Mexicans, whose trade with the Comanche Indians in the early Southwest was based on a peace treaty concluded in 1786. The author shows how their mutual support right up until the 1860s made the American occupation of the plains very costly.