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Dimensions: measurements 24 by 18 in. alternate measurements (61.0 by 45.7 cm)

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Exhibited: Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum, Cowboy Artists of America: Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition, October-November 1994, illustrated in color on the cover

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Literature: Arizona Highways, January 1995, illustrated in color on the cover

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Notes: A catalogue of the Phoenix Art Museum exhibition and a copy of the January 1995 Arizona Highways will accompany the lot.
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF R. MICHAEL KAMMERER, JR.
"In 1866, Congress authorized the creation of six all-black regiments, a number later reduced to four... Soon after their formation, the 9υth and 10υth [cavalries] were ordered west, where they comprised 20 percent of America's Indian-fighting cavalry and boasted the lowest desertion rate. The Buffalo Soldiers guarded stagecoaches and railroad crews, settled ranch feuds, strung telegraph wire, defended the U.S. border, and put down uprisings by hostile Indians... Ironically, the greatest respect they received came from their battlefield enemies, the Plains Indians, who dubbed them the "Buffalo Soldiers" because their curly black hair resembled the mane of an animal the tribes held in nearly sacred regard" (Leo Banks, "The Buffalo Soldiers," Arizona Highways, January 1995, p. 35-36).