Emily D. West and the Yellow Rose of Texas Myth
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780786474493
Subjects: Presidents' spouses, united states; Texas, history, to 1846; Women, united states, biography
Description: "The real Yellow Rose was an ordinary but also quite remarkable free Black woman from the North, Emily D. West. This is the first full-length biography of her--which explores the evolution of one of the most popular myths in American, Texas and Western history"--