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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Paul H. Carlson. The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, $24.95.
By the summer of 1877, Americans were recovering from the shock of General George Armstrong Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn. The frontier army was rounding up the few remaining free Sioux and Cheyenne bands, chasing the elusive Nez Percé through the Bitterroots, and pursuing Apache and Kickapoo raiders into their Mexican strongholds. After spending seventy years in the West, the U.S. Army still failed to grasp the realities of life in the arid region. When Captain Nicholas M. Nolan of the Tenth Cavalry pursued a Kwahada Comanche band across the Llano Estacado in the dry summer's heat, he forgot that water is a gift west of the one hundredth meridian. Stung by his 1875 failure aggressively to pursue Apache and Comanche raiders across the Llano, Nolan made a series of poor decisions that threatened the lives of his men, doomed his mission, and cost the army valuable animals, equipment, and supplies. Drawing on military records and participants' reminiscences, Paul H. Carlson reconstructs the most likely scenario that occurred on the Llano those desperate five days in late July 1877.	1
As ordered, Nolan led the sixty-two officers and men of Troop A out of Fort Concho on July 10 and headed north toward the Llano, in search of Comanches who had left their reservation at Fort Sill to join free Kwahadas. Upon meeting a "posse" of bison hunters who were chasing the Comanches who had stolen their horses and killed a comrade, Nolan and the bison hunters pressed on together. With the help of Chief Quanah Parker, however, the Comanches were able to elude Nolan's expedition and arrive safely at Fort Sill.	. . .

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