| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.2

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*Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West. By Frank N. Schubert. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. xi + 281 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $24.95.) The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877*. By Paul H. Carlson. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. xiv + 177 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)
These two books continue the emerging historical record of the military service performed by black Regular Army soldiers on the trans-Mississippi frontier from 1867 to 1897; and the complexity of race relations on that frontier.	1
Frank N. Schubert, historian in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, follows his excellent biographical study, On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier (Wilmington, DE, 1995), with this valuable documentary history. More than a documentary account, it is a first rate social history of what it was like to be a black soldier in the 9th and 10th Cavalry and 24^th and 25^th Infantry Regiments during that era.	2
In Voices of the Buffalo Soldier, Schubert presents a wide selection of primary source documents, many of them from previously unexplored material in the National Archives. Among them are official military reports, individual service and pension records, court-martial proceedings, personal letters, oral history interviews, and articles from contemporary African American newspapers and magazines. The 105 documents are organized in chronological order in sixty brief chapters. Schubert's succinct introductions to each chapter, and many of his endnotes, contribute original insights, as do many of the documents.	3
Schubert evaluates the numerous theories on the origin of the appellation, "Buffalo Soldiers," and examines the black soldiers' attitudes toward the term.	. . .

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