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The Black West : a documentary and pictorial history of the African American role in the westward expansion of the United States
Title:
The Black West : a documentary and pictorial history of the African American role in the westward expansion of the United States
ISBN:
9780767912310
Publication Information:
New York : Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, c2005.
Physical Description:
xvi, 318 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1971.
Contents:
Indians and Africans in the age of exploration -- Trappers, guides, and mountain men -- Going West -- Slavery on the frontier -- Expansion and war: crisis years -- California -- The cowhands -- Exodus to Kansas -- The Buffalo Soldiers -- Oklahoma -- Black women of the last frontier -- Empire: Buffalo Soldiers abroad -- A black West in white America.
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