Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877

In the middle of the arid summer of 1877, a troop of forty buffalo soldiers struck out into the Llano Estacado from Double Lakes, south of modern Lubbock, pursuing a band of Kwahada Comanches. This routine army scout had turned into disaster of the worst kind. Paul Carlson has mined archival sources to provide the first multifaceted narrative of the tragedy.