Usaf Academy (9 results)

Trade paperback. Very Good+ condition. Tight, clean textblock. Covers and page ends moderately worn and soiled.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No Illustrations (illustrator). Second Edition. Book block clean and tight. Corners bumped. Moderate wear with back lower corner missing. Paperback.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Very good.

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1968. Staplebound white softcover bright, age stains present. Book is firm in its binding, free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 340 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 114 pages. 9.00x0.29x6.00 inches. In Stock.

Octavo, red & gray cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xvii, 338 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: In 177, John Bigelow Jr. and seventy-five other cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, after which he chronicled his experiences, observations, opinions, and musings as a young Cavalry lieutenant in Texas. Sixty of the new lieutenants, including Bigelow and seventeen others who were assigned to black regiments called Buffalo Soldiers, soon departed for the frontier where they were scattered over numerous small and often ramshackle posts and camps. Their work of training soldiers, exploring and patrolling wilderness areas, protecting the mail, travelers, and settlers, chasing and sporadically clashing with unpacified Indians, and enforcing federal laws and policies awas usually arduous, occasionally dangerous and seldom glorious. Yet the value of their accomplishments was immense. Uoon reporting to Fort Duncan, a small post on the Rio Grande, Bigelow became the commanding officer of Company B, 10th Cavalry. Several weeks later a rash of Indian raids in the trans-Pecos region led to his company's transfer to Fort Stockton, where his principal duty was scouting for elusive marauders. He also became increasingly immersed in courts martial as a prosecutor and court member, as well as a witness in two officer cases, one of which rocked the entire Army, that were tried in San Antonio. In addition to providing a comprehensive view of army life in the late 1870s, including the social practices and prevailing Victorian customs, the author addresses the widespread attitudes of the times toward the Buffalo Soldiers and how these views changed when black and white soldiers fought side by side against common foes. Also portrayed are the results of sending poorly prepared officers and men to fight in unconventional conflicts, desertion-inciting conditions and practices, and how an obsolete military justice system developed into a model of fairness far in advance of its civilian counterparts. This informative, lively, and entertaining narrative presents an enduring portrait of frontier army life and the challenges confronting officers and soldiers alike in the nation's relentless drive westward. Western Americana, American West, Texas, Buffalo Soldiers, U. S. Army, U. S. History, American History, Americana, U.S.-iana. zslic.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. Newcomen Society of the United States, New York, First Printing, September 1986. 24 pages. Illustrated. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Address at 1986 Coloradi Meeting, Colorado Springs, March 19, 1986. Clean, tight, very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Complete set of 5 volumes for course about the history of U.S. air power. Covers are clean and smooth. Corners of soft cover have minor wear. Bindings, either stapled or bound, are strong. Pages are clean. Page edges are slightly soiled. White spines with no lettering; five book set.