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Black frontiers : a history of African American heroes in the Old West / by Lillian Schlissel.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection F596.3.N4 S35 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlissel, Lillian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American pioneers--West (U.S.)--History--Juvenile literature.
- African American pioneers.
- African American pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American trappers--West (U.S.)--History--Juvenile literature.
- African American trappers.
- African American trappers--West (U.S.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American cowboys--West (U.S.)--History--Juvenile literature.
- African American cowboys.
- African American cowboys--West (U.S.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- History.
- West (U.S.)--History--Juvenile literature.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans--Biography.
- West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Cowboys.
- African American soldiers.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lee, Ruth Sara (donor) (Lee Collection copy)
- Lee, Charles (autograph) (inscription) (Lee Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 80 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 x 26 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [©1995]
- Summary:
- Focuses on the experiences of blacks as mountain men, soldiers, homesteaders, and scouts on the frontiers of the American West.
- Contents:
- Mountain men, trappers, and guides
- Jim Beckwourth
- Leaving the South
- Black homesteaders
- The Exodusters
- A Cowboy's life
- The Adventures of Nat Love
- Bill Pickett and the Black Rodeo
- Ned Huddleston, alias Isom Dart, alias the Black Fox
- The Dime novel
- Barney Ford, businessman
- The Buffalo soldiers
- Mary Fields, "Stagecoach Mary"
- Mary Ellen Pleasant
- Biddy Mason
- Black Indians.
- Notes:
- "Book design by Sylvia Frezzolini Severance."
- "The text for this book is set in Palatino."
- "First Edition."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-77) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Lee Collection copy has dust jacket.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has "Guaranteed Reinforced Binding".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schlissel, Lillian. Black frontiers.
- ISBN:
- 0689802854 :
- 9780689802850
- 0671738534
- 9780671738532
- 9780689833151
- 0689833156
- OCLC:
- 25315937
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