Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index
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Land of sunshine and space -- Bison Hunters and Rath City in 1877 -- Comanches and settlers in 1877 -- Buffalo soldiers and the army in 1877 -- Onto the high yarner -- The thirsting time -- Down off the high yarner -- Back from the dead
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In the middle of the arid summer of 1877 a troop of some 40 buffalo soldiers (African American cavalry led by white officers) struck out into the Llano Estacado from Double Lakes, south of modern Lubbock pursuing a band of Kwahada Comanches who had been raiding homesteads and hunting parties. This is the story about that incident