Black pioneers : images of the Black experience on the North American frontier /

John Ravage has assembled a phenomenal archive of over 200 never-before-published photographs that depict the full range of African-American experience in the West. Beginning with the earliest available photographs from the mid-1800s, the collection of images in Black Pioneers reconstructs our under...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ravage, John W., 1937-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1997.
Sujets:
African American pioneers > West (U.S.) > History > Pictorial works.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Pictorial works.
HISTORY > State & Local.
African American pioneers
Frontier and pioneer life
Frontier.
West (U.S.) > History > Pictorial works.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés.
West United States
History
Pictorial works
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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