Buffalo soldiers in Alaska : Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry / Brian G. Shellum.

"Brian G. Shellum tells the story of Company L, which served in Skagway, Alaska, and was one of the two companies added to the all-Black Twenty-Fourth U.S. Infantry Regiment after war was declared on Spain in April 1898"-- "The town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shellum, Brian G. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Subjects:
United States. > Army. > Infantry Regiment, 24th (1869-1951). > Company L.
United States. > Army > Civic action > History > 20th century.
United States. > Army.
Skagway (Alaska) > History, Military.
African Americans > Alaska > Skagway > History.
African American soldiers > History > 20th century.
African American soldiers > Biography.
Alaska > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Skagway (Alaska) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Skagway (Alaska) > Biography.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
African American soldiers.
African Americans.
Armed Forces > Civic action.
Social conditions.
Alaska > Skagway.
1900-1999
Biographies.
History.
Military history.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Military history.
Physical Description:xxi, 329 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry
Format: Book

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