African Americans on the Western Frontier [Hardcover]

Monroe Lee Billington (Editor), Roger D. Hardaway (Editor)

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Publication Date: June 1998

This book is designed to remedy the historic neglect of the significant contribution made by African-Americans to the settlement and development of the West. The African-American western experience during the frontier era (1850-1912) is a story that is rich and diverse. The fifteen authors in this volume highlight many of the contributions African-American men and women made to the western frontier -- as miners, homesteaders, town builders, entrepreneurs, and ordinary, civic-minded citizens.

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Monroe Lee Billington and Roger D Hardaway

Product Details

• Hardcover: 275 pages
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado; 1St Edition edition (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870814915
• ISBN-13: 978-0870814914
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,563,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A comprehensive look at many aspects of black life in the Old West, March 29, 2006

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This review is from: African Americans on the Western Frontier (Paperback)

This book of 14 essays conveys various aspects of the African American experience in the West from 1850 until the end of the Frontier Era, approximately 1912. The topics include slavery in the West, Reconstruction on the frontier, all-black towns, women, Buffalo Soldiers, black miners, cowboys, newspapers and more. In addition to numerous illustrations, the book includes a bibliographic essay detailing the numerous books and articles written in recent years, and the Appendix has the African American population by state for the period covered.