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1) Paradise sky
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"Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When Loving dies, Willie re-christens himself Nat Love in tribute to his mentor, and heads west. In Deadwood, South Dakota Territory, Nat becomes a Buffalo Soldier and is befriended by Wild Bill Hickok. After winning a famous...
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2011
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A photographic history of the two black cavalry regiments that served to keep peace on the frontier from 1867 to 1891. Also shown is the dedication ceremony at Fort Leavenworth of a monument to the buffalo soldiers by sculptor Eddie Dixon, with speeches by Gen. Colin Powell and other high ranking black officers of the U.S. Armed Forces
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[1967]
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The author presents an account of the "accomplishments of the 9th and 10th regiments of Negro U.S. Cavalry. He recounts their almost constant clashes with Indians, Mexican bandits and revolutionaries, criminals and frontier riffraff... from the end of the Civil War to the early 1890's."