"The first anthology to collect readings on the historical and contemporary expereinces of western Native Americans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and A

African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant

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

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

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents a