The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. This work challenges that view in a chronicle that

Thirteen essays examine the roles African-Americans played in the settling of the American West, discussing the slaves of Mormons and California gold miners; Af

"Companion to the PBS series NATURE: bears of the last frontier"--Dustjacket.

Originally published in 1941, The Last Frontier is the story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory i