Buffalo soldiers in Alaska : Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry /

"The town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in under a year due to the Klondike Gold Rush. Balanced on the edge of anarchy, the U.S. Army stationed Company L, a unit of Buffalo Soldiers, there near the end of the Gold Rush. Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska tells the story of...

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Main Author: Shellum, Brian G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
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