African Americans on the western frontier / edited with an introduction by Monroe Lee Billington and Roger D. Hardaway.

Other author Billington, Monroe Lee.
Other author Hardaway, Roger D.
Format Book
Publication InfoNiwot : University Press of Colorado, ©1998.
Descriptionvii, 275 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Subjects
African Americans--West (U.S.). --History. --19th century.
African Americans--West (U.S.). --History. --20th century.
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
West (U.S.)--Race relations.

Contents Slavery in the west / W. Sherman Savage -- Mormons and slavery : a closer look / Newell G. Bringhurst -- Reconstruction on the frontier : the equal rights struggle in Colorado, 1865-1867 / Eugene H. Berwanger -- Buffalo soldiers in the American west, 1865-1900 / Monroe Lee Billington -- Improbable ambassadors : Black soldiers at Fort Douglas, Utah, 1896-1899 / Michael J. Clark -- Blacks and the coal mines of western Washington, 1888-1896 / Robert A. Campbell -- Black cowboys in the American west, 1866-1900 / Kenneth W. Porter -- Integration, exclusion, or segregation? the "color line" in Kansas, 1878-1900 / Randall B. Woods -- Oklahoma's all-Black towns / George O. Carney -- American daughters : Black women in the west / Glenda Riley -- Still in chains : Black women in western prisons, 1865-1910 / Anne M. Butler -- Helena, Montana's Black community, 1900-1912 / William L. Lang -- Development of African American newspapers in the American west, 1880-1914 / Gayle K. Berardi and Thomas W. Segady -- African American frontier : a bibliographic essay / Roger D. Hardaway.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98009958
ISBN0870814915 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E185.925 .A58 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold