Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930(Volume 17)

Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930(Volume 17)Winner of the Western Writers of America SPUR Award and the Western Association of Women Historians Gita Chaudhuri Prize! Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (18521931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. Race and the Wild West is the first full length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into race and belonging in

A captivating and inspiring guide to building an untouchable empire from mud to marble

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in order to establish a sense of normalcy and discover who they really are again

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What Is Anti-Racism

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those whose actions preserved our constitutional framework