Black pioneers : images of the Black experience on the North American frontier /
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| Language: | English |
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
©1997.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=10461 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: moving westward and northward
- Early imagery
- Black Westerners in White mythology
- Warriors and soldiers
- Cowhands and ranch hands
- Women of the west
- The adventurers
- To the coast
- Plains states: Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Nebraska
- Desert and mountains: Arizona, Utah, Nevada
- Points north: Alaska, the Pacific northwest
- "Haole 'Ele 'Ele" in Owhyhee
- Follow the drinkin' gourd
- The Utendale/Shaw/Boyd trek north.