01531cam a2200349 4500 339258568 TxAuBib 20110506120000.0 850819s1986||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 85020814 9780875650586 0875650589 9780875650593 pbk. 0875650597 pbk. (OCoLC)12556968 TxAuBib Kelton, Elmer. The Wolf and the Buffalo / Elmer Kelton ; with a new introduction by Elmer Kelton ; and an afterword by Lawrence Clayton. Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1986. x, 424, [3] p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]). Gideon Ledbetter, freed from slavery, finds himself with no land, no money, and no means to make a living. He is drawn into the army, which had painted a deceptively alluring picture of cavalry life. Soon, Gideon becomes locked in a battle with a Comanche warrior, and a portrait emerges of two men who are merely pawns in a tragic conflict. 20081223. United States Army African American troops History Fiction. United States Army Cavalry, 10th History Fiction. Comanche Indians Fiction. Texas Fiction. Western stories. Historical fiction. War stories. ALEML