TY - BOOK ID - 77877852 TI - African Americans on the Great Plains : An Anthology AU - Braithwaite, Charles A. AU - Glasrud, Bruce A. PY - 2009 SN - 1282423738 9786612423734 0803226896 9780803226890 9780803226678 0803226675 9781282423732 6612423730 PB - Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - African Americans KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Border life KW - Homesteading KW - Pioneer life KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Manners and customs KW - Pioneers KW - History. KW - History KW - Great Plains KW - Plains, Great KW - Northwest, Canadian KW - West (U.S.) KW - Race relations KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77877852 AB - Until recently, histories of the American West gave little evidence of the presence-let alone importance-of African Americans in the unfolding of the western frontier. There might have been a mention of Estevan, slavery, or the Dred Scott decision, but the rich and varied experience of African Americans on the Great Plains went largely unnoted. This book, the first of its kind, supplies that critical missing chapter in American history. ER -