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The Black West

A history of the black people who participated in the development of the Western frontier in the United States, in such categories as the explorers, fur traders, early settlers, slaves, cowboys, and soldiers.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Katz, William Loren.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle, WA : Open Hand Pub., ©1987.
Edition:3rd ed., rev. and expanded.
Subjects and Genres:
African Americans > West (U.S.) > History.
African American pioneers > West (U.S.) > History.
African Americans > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > History.
West (U.S.) > Biography.
Biographies.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The explorers
  • Stephen Dorantes or Estevan ; Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ; York ; Florida's black explorers
  • 2. The fur traders
  • The Bonga (Bonza) Family ; James P. Beckwourth
  • 3. The early settlers
  • Colonial life ; Early black settlements ; Western colorphobia ; Black laws ; Lucy and Abijah Prince ; Greenbury Logan ; John Jones ; Dred Scott ; George Washington of Centralia, Washington ; George Washington Bush ; Aunt Clara Brown ; The black jockeys
  • 4. Slavery in the West
  • The Constitution ; Slavery escalates frontier conflict
  • The Mexican War ; Slaveholder efforts at new frontiers ; Western stations of the Underground Railroad ; Bleeding Kansas
  • 5. California
  • Under Spain and Mexico ; Gold Rush days ; Fugutive slave days ; Early civil rights campaigns ; Mifflin W. Gibbs
  • 6. The cowboys
  • Nat Love "Deadwood Dick" ; Cherokee Bill ; Mary Fields ; Ben Hodges ; Isom Dart ; Bill Pickett
  • 7. The homesteaders
  • Barney Ford and Henry O. Wagoner ; The black western press
  • 8. The black infantry and calvary
  • The Ninth Calvary ; The Tenth Cavalry ; The 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments ; Black officers from West Point ; At the Little Big Horn ; Frederick Remington's black West ; The Seminole Negro Indian scouts
  • 9. Oklahoma : a black dream crushed
  • Protecting Oklahoma ; Exodus to Oklahoma ; Edwin P. McCabe
  • 10. The Spanish-American War
  • Glory abroad, lynching at home
  • 11. Black women of the last frontier
  • Women of the migrations to Kansas ; Black pioneer women ; Mail-order brides and Arizona mining camps ; Education and progress ; The black towns
  • 12. The black West in white America : conclusions
  • Appendix. Boley, a Negro town in the West / Booker T. Washington.

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