Black pioneers : images of the Black experience on the North American frontier / John W. Ravage.
Material type: TextPublication details: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c1997.Description: xxi, 224 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0874805465 (cloth : alk. paper)
- E185.925 .R38 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-217) and index.
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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.