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in Army Letters from An Officer’s Wife (1909) 65: The officers say the negroes make good soldiers and fight like fiends [...] The Indians call them ‘buffalo soldiers,’ because their woolly heads are so much like the matted cushion that is between the horns of the buffalo. in Army Letters from An Officer’s Wife (1909) 77: The colored troops were real soldiers that night, alert and plucky. in Army Letters from An Officer’s Wife (1909) 206: The driver is their only protector, and the stage route is through miles and miles of wild forest, and in between huge boulders where a ‘hold-up’ could be so easily accomplished. in Army Letters from an Officer’s Wife (1909) 268: Faye says that the men were [...] simply trying to keep their rifles from being marred and scratched, for if they did get so they would be ‘jumped’ at the first inspection. in Army Letters from An Officer’s Wife (1909) 332: Everyone knew that to have been the work of vigilantes, and was a message to some gambler or horse thief to get himself out of town or stand shotgun or rope jury. in Army Letters from An Officer’s Wife (1909) 346: The man had opened his eyes wide, and almost gasped ‘Gee-rew-s’lum!’— then utterly collapsed.