Race and the Wild West
Subtitle: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870-1930
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780806164977
Subjects: America, history
Description: "The biography of Sarah Bickford, born a slave in Tennessee, who became the first African American female public utilities owner of the Virginia City Water Company and spent three decades promoting tourism at a historic building where the Montana Vigilantes lynched five men"--