The Black West
Subtitle: a documentary and pictorial history of the African American role in the westward expansion of the United States
By: by William Loren Katz with a new introd.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780684814780
Subjects: 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.); African Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History.; African Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; Frontier and pioneer life.; West (U.S.) -- History.; West (U.S.) -- Biography.; West (U.S.) -- History.; West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-346) and index.
"A Touchstone book."
Table of contents: title: The explorers.; title: Pioneer Maroon settlements; title: Stephen Dorantes or Estevan; title: Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable; title: York; title: Florida's black explorers; title: The fur traders.; title: Bonga (Bonza) family; title: James P. Beckwourth; title: The early settlers.; title: Colonial life; title: Early black settlements; title: Western colorphobia; title: Black laws; title: Lucy and Abijah Prince; title: Greenbury Logan; title: John Jones; title: Dred Scott; title: George Washington of Centralia, Washington; title: George Washington Bush; title: Aunt Clara Brown; title: The black jockeys; title: The black pioneers of British Columbia; title: Slavery in the West.; title: The Constitution; title: Slavery escalates frontier conflict; title: The Mexican War; title: Slaveholder efforts at new frontiers; title: Western abolitionism; title: The western stations of the underground railroad; title: Bleeding Kansas; title: California.; title: Under Spain and Mexico; title: Gold rush days; title: Fugitive slave days; title: Early civil rights campaigns; title: Mifflin W. Gibbs; title: The cowboys.; title: Nat Love : "Deadwood Dick"; title: Cherokee Bill; title: Mary Fields; title: Ben Hodges; title: Isom Dart; title: Bill Pickett); title: The homesteaders.; title: Barney Ford and Henry O. Wagoner; title: The black western press; title: The black infantry and cavalry.; title: The Ninth Cavalry; title: The Tenth Cavalry; title: The 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments; title: Black officers from West Point; title: At the Little Big Horn; title: Frederic Remington's black west; title: The Seminole Negro Indian scouts; title: Oklahoma : A black dream crushed.; title: Protecting Oklahoma; title: Exodus to Oklahoma; title: Edwin P. McCabe; title: The Spanish-American War.; title: Glory abroad, lynching at home; title: Black women of the last frontier.; title: Women of the migrations to Kansas; title: Black pioneer women; title: Education and progress; title: The Black towns; title: Elvira Conley; title: The Black West in White America : conclusions