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Article: The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper.(Book review)
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- Wild West
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- December 1, 2009
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The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper, Charles M. Robinson III, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2008, $29.95.
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The Trials of Henry Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point, by Don Cusic, McFarland Publishers, Jefferson, N.C., 2008, $35.
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Whether they should have or not, key events and figures in the history of the American West evolved readily and swiftly into myth and legend. Historians have been trying to set the record straight ever since. In the case of Henry Ossian Flipper (1856-1940), however, the mythology is a more recent phenomenon. As ...