BLACK WOMEN OF
THE OLD WEST

by WILLIAM LOREN KATZ

"Though African-American women appear in few textbooks or movies of the old west, they turned up on every American frontier. Some were born among Native American nations and  others traveled west in pioneer wagons. More then devoted mothers and daughters, they built communities, schools and churches, and stayed on to become poets and civil rights agitators, schoolmarms and nurses, cowgirls and homesteaders.   Black women lived their American dream as they ran laundries, hotels, schools, stores, ranches, newspapers and carting firms. Day into night they poured themselves into the hearty fellowship, trying labor and self help that kept communities afloat. As they challenged white bigotry, their frontier grit helped transform dismal, sparsely settled territories into thriving, populous states."                                                                                    ....   jacket inset

* Contents include
      -LIBERTY AMONG THE INDIANS,
       -A THIRST FOR FREEDOM,
       - BUILDING IN THE WILDERNESS
       - THE ORDEAL OF DRED AND HARRIET SCOTT
       - FRONTIER AGITATORS
       - CONFLICT IN CALIFORNIA
       - CLARA BROWN OF COLORADO
       - THE WAGONS OF OPPORTUNITY
       - MAIL ORDER BRIDES OF THE SOUTHWEST
       - FRONTIER WOMEN AND LIFE'S GOALS
       - EXODUS TO KANSAS
       - TEXAS
       - COLORADO'S PIONEERS
       - NEVADA WOMEN
      - SHAPING COMMUNITY IN OKLAHOMA
       - SUCCEEDING IN SEATTLE
      - ALMOST ALONE  (SOUTH DAKOTA LEGENDS)
          - MARY FIELDS OF CASCADE, MONTANA

William Loren Katz
     -- Author of more than thirty books on African Americans, including such award-winning titles as Breaking the Chains, Proudly Red and Black and Black Indians.

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