The Buffalo Soldiers: Guardians of the Uintah Frontier 1886 - 1901 BY R O N A L D G. C O L E M A N
l H E R E HAVE B E E N SEVERAL
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ies on the history of black soldiers in the post-Civil War years.1 More than one historian has noted their presence at Fort Duchesne, Utah, but none has examined the soldiers' on-duty as well as off-duty activities during their years on the Uintah Mr. Coleman is an instructor of history at the University of Utah. 1 For examples see Jack D. Foner, Blacks and the Military in American History (NewYork, 1 9 7 4 ) ; William A. Leckie, The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West ( N o r m a n : University of Oklahoma Press, 1967).
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