By Henry O. Flipper, Theodore D. Harris
ISBN-10: 0875651712
ISBN-13: 9780875651712
Black Frontiersman is Flipper's autobiographical account of his provider with the 10th U.S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and his years as a civilian that - one among just a handful of such bills through a black American. even supposing Flipper's years at the western frontier were good documented through historians, this revised and up to date quantity of Theodore D. Harris' Negro Frontiersman contains a new advent, improved endnotes and little recognized and formerly unpublished fabrics. Flipper's memoirs element his time spent at the U.S.-Mexican border, his adventures in Sonora and Chihuahua ahead of the Mexican Revolution, his time as an aide to U.S. Senator Albert Bacon Fall, and his later reminiscences on race and politics within the Nineteen Thirties.
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He kept abreast of the main currents of American political and racial developments during the traumatic decade of the 1930s. He expressed his views on these topics in a series of letters to Dr. Thomas Jefferson Flanagan, an editor of the Atlanta Daily World, one of America's most influential African American newspapers. His ideas sometimes influenced the editorials of the paper. His letters were rich in their recollections of distant experiences at West Point, in the frontier Army, and as a civilian on the southwestern frontier.
I was just leaving the last one when I heard a noise as of some one shuffling his feet. It came from overhead and when I looked up I saw a light shining through the tiniest crack. I went out and got a guard and came back and found fifteen or twenty men gambling in the garret. They had loosened a plank or two in the ceiling and could push up with a light ladder turning these planks over. Then they Page 26 would climb up, pull the ladder up and turn the planks down into place and gamble most of the night, almost perfectly secure from detection.
In 1908, he engaged Flipper as a legal and mining consultant for the Sierra Mining Company, a corporation controlled by Fall. Albert Fall later declared that during those years of Mexican ventures: "Mr. "14 In 1912, with Americans fleeing the violence of the Mexican Revolution, Fall stationed Flipper in El Paso, Texas. Under tutelage of the wily and ambitious Fall, Flipper's adventurous life was now to be spiced by the element of international intrigue. In El Paso his legal and mining consultative duties were expanded to include assignment as personal intelligence agent for his employer, who was now a nationally influential political figure.
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