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

by Laura Joanne Arata

Book Overview

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 (1852-1931) 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806164972
• ISBN13: 9780806164977
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"