This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs--many never before seen--as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital Role played by African American men and women on America\'s early frontiers.
Cherokee Bill--and a host of other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo..
Stagecoach Mary
Cranford Goldsby, a.k.a.
Deadwood Dick
Mary Fields, a.k.a.
Inspired by a conversation that William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers like Nat Love, a.k.a.
These runaways inspired the idea eventually adopted as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves within the States that were in rebellion.
Among its fascinating accounts are those explaining how thousands of enslaved people in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas successfully escaped into the neighboring Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
This revised volume includes an exciting new chapter on the Civil War and the experiences of African Americans on the western frontier.
This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs--many never before seen--as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital Role played by African American men and women on America\'s early frontiers
