Introduction: Western Black soldiers since The Buffalo Soldiers : a review of the literature / Bruce A. Glasrud --

I. The officers and the troops. Fort Riley's Black soldiers and the Army's changing role in the West, 1867-85 / William A. Dobak --

William R. Shafter, Black troops, and the opening of the Llano Estacado, 1870-75 / Paul H. Carlson --

Buffalo soldier chaplains of the old West / Alan K. Lamm --

"Dress on the colors, boys!" Black noncommissioned officers in the regular Army, 1866-98 / Douglas C. McChristian --

II. The black sordier. Cathay Williams : Black woman soldier, 1866-68 / DeAnne Blanton --

One soldier's service : Caleb Benson in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, 1875-1908 / Thomas R. Buecker --

The court-martial of Lt. Henry O. Flipper : an example of Black-White relationships in the Army, 1881 / Bruce J. Dinges --

The Black Seminole Indian scouts in the Big Bend / Thomas A. Britten --

III. Discrimination and violence. Black soldiers at Fort Hays, Kansas, 1867-69 : a study in civilian and military violence / James N. Leiker

Black soldiers on the White frontier : some factors influencing race relations /

Frank N. Schubert

Rio Grande City : prelude to the Brownsville raid /

Garna L. Christian --

The Houston riot of 1917, revisited / C. Calvin Smith --

IV. Community of soldiers. Improbable ambassadors : Black soldiers at Fort Douglas, 1896-99 / Michael J. Clark --

Putting the army on wheels : the story of the Twenty-fifth Infantry Bicycle Corps / Charles M. Dollar --

The Black soldier-athlete in the U.S. Army, 1890-1916 / Marvin E. Fletcher --

Community building on the border : the role of the Twenty-fourth Infantry Band at Columbus, New Mexico, 1916-22 / Horace Daniel Nash.