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Jim Beckwourth
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Wyatt Blassingame |
Biography of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, Indian chief, trader, gold seeker, innkeeper, and rancher who discovered a pass in the Sierra Nevadas which bears his name. |
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The Black West
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William Loren Katz |
The American West: no period in our history has defined and shaped us more as a nation. Unique to the U.S., the Old West exerts a power on the American imagination that can still be seen in almost ev… |
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Black frontiersman
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Henry Ossian Flipper |
Black Frontiersman is Flipper's autobiographical account of his service with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and his years as a civilian that followed - one of only a handful of such acc… |
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Hurry Freedom
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Jerry Stanley |
Recounts the history of African Americans in California during the Gold Rush while focusing on the life and work of Mifflin Gibbs. |
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The Conquest
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Jayna J. Brown,Oscar Micheaux |
***The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer***, portrays the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux. Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of thirteen child… |
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First Dawn (Book 1 Freedom's Path Series)
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Judith McCoy-Miller,Judith Miller |
Lured by the promise of "real" freedom and a new town to call their own, sharecroppers Ezekial Harban and his three daughters leave behind remnants of slavery in the war-torn south and set off for Ni… |
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James Beckwourth
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Susan R. Gregson |
A biography profiling the life of James Beckwourth, an African American man whose sense of adventure led the way to westward expansion of the United States. Includes source notes and timeline. |
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