
A landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the exploration, settling, and conquest of the territory west of the Mississippi...

The American West has come to be known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. "In Search of the Racial Frontier" challenges that view in a rich, complex chronicle of western African Americans that takes readers from the arrival in Texas in 1528...