The Black West / by William Loren Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, William Loren.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--West (U.S.)--History.

African Americans.

African American pioneers--West (U.S.)--History.

African American pioneers.

History.

West (U.S.)--History.

West (U.S.).

African Americans--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).

Frontier and pioneer life.

West (U.S.)--Biography.

West United States.

Afro-Americans--West (U.S)--History.

Afro-Americans--West (U.S)--Biography.

West (U.S)--History.

West (U.S)--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Frontier and pioneer life.

Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).

Afro-Americans--West (U.S)--History.

Afro-Americans--West (U.S)--Biography.

West (U.S)--History.

West (U.S)--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 348 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition, revised and expanded.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : Open Hand Publishing Inc., 1987.

Contents:

1. The Explorers. Stephen Dorantes or Estevan; Jean Baptiste Point du Sable; York; Florida's black explorers

2. The Fur Traders. The Bonga (Bonza) Family; James P. Beckwourth

3. The Early Settlers. Colonial life; Early black settlements; Western colorphobia; Black laws; Lucy and Abijah Prince; Greenbury Logan; John Jones; Dred Scott; George Washington of Centralia, Washington; George Washington Bush; Aunt Clara Brown; The black jockeys

4. Slavery in the West. The Constitution; Slavery escalates frontier conflict; The Mexican War; Slaveholder efforts at new frontiers; Western stations of the Underground Railroad; Bleeding Kansas

5. California. Under Spain and Mexico; Gold Rush days; Fugitive slave days; Early civil rights campaigns; Mifflin W. Gibbs

6. The Cowboys. Nat Love "Deadwood Dick"; Cherokee Bill; Mary Fields; Ben Hodges; Isom Dart; Bill Pickett

7. The Homesteaders. Barney Ford and Henry O. Wagoner; The black western press

8. The Black Infantry and Cavalry. The Ninth Cavalry; The Tenth Cavalry; The 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments; Black officers from West Point; At the Little Big Horn; Frederick Remington's black West; The Seminole Negro Indian scouts

9. Oklahoma A Black Dream Crushed. Protecting Oklahoma; Exodus to Oklahoma; Edwin P. McCabe

10. The Spanish-American War. Glory abroad, lynching at home

11. Black Women of the Last Frontier. Women of the migrations to Kansas; Black pioneer women; Mail-order brides and Arizona mining camps; Education and progress; The black towns

12. The Black West in White America: conclusions.

Notes:

"First published in hardcover by Doubleday & Company, Inc., in 1971. Anchor Books Revised Edition: 1973."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-344) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has article from Washington Post laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Katz, William Loren. Black West.

ISBN:

0940880172

9780940880177

0940880180

9780940880184

OCLC:

16922873