{"product_id":"the-colored-cadet-at-west-point-autobiography-of-lieutenant-henry-ossian-flipper-u-s-a-first-graduate-of-color-from-the-u-s-military-academy-9780803268906","title":"The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy","description":"Henry Ossian Flipper was one of the nineteenth-century West's most remarkable individuals. The first African American graduate of West Point, he served four years in the West as a cavalry officer but was court-martialed and dismissed from the service in 1882. He spent the rest of his long life attempting to clear his name. \u003cp\u003eFlipper's record of accomplishment was significant for any individual in any time, and for a nineteenth-century black American it was phenomenal. As historian Quintard Taylor points out, in his post-Army career Flipper was a surveyor, cartographer, civil and mining engineer, interpreter, translator, historian, inventor, newspaper editor, special agent for the Justice Department, deputy U.S. mineral surveyor, aide to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and consultant to the secretary of the interior. His work carried him to Mexico, Venezuela, and Spain, and he left a record of achievement that demonstrates his enormous talent and unrelenting effort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Colored Cadet at West Point\u003c\/i\u003e contains Taylor's biographical essay, Flipper's account of his career at West Point, and a new index prepared for this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Ossian Flipper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.92h x 5.27w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803268906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuintard Taylor Jr. is head of the Department of History at the University of Oregon. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of the Racial Frontier.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43232845168755,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":24.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_d8720ed7-664b-4f5e-b124-4d28f6a79eb7.jpg?v=1754052998","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-colored-cadet-at-west-point-autobiography-of-lieutenant-henry-ossian-flipper-u-s-a-first-graduate-of-color-from-the-u-s-military-academy-9780803268906","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}