Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852-1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City.
By examining her.
For many years, Sarah Bickford\'s known biography fit into a single paragraph.
Race and the Wild West is the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into Race and belonging in the American West around the turn of the twentieth century.
Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852-1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City