african american pioneers

Text, illustrations, and photographs discuss the fundamental role that African Americans have played in the making of the American republic.

Biographical sketches profile thirty-five African-American men and women who explored and settled the frontiers of the early United States.

Examines the life and career of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, and trader.

Presents a comprehensive biography of former slave and western pioneer Jim Beckwourth, whose white father freed him when he was nine and sent him to school; and follows his journeys out west.

A biographical history of influential African American pioneers and freedom fighters in the Midwest, including Sara Jane Woodson, Peter Clark, and Dred Scott.

Photographs and text document the full range of African-American experience in the North American frontier, and discusses how African-Americans, in their various roles as doctors, ranchers, politicians, lawmen, soldiers, cowboys, miners, and outlaws, contributed to westward expansion in the post-Civil War era.

Presents a biography of James Beckwourth, slave, scout, mountain man, Indian chief, and storyteller, and provides information on his childhood, his life as a trapper, and his sense of adventure that lead to westward expansion.

Recounts the history of African Americans in California during the Gold Rush while focusing on the life and work of Mifflin Gibbs.

The story of Jean Baptiste Du Sable and the adventures he had on the way to becoming a successful fur trader and founder of the city that came to be known as Chicago.

Focuses on the experiences of African Americans as mountain men, soldiers, homesteaders, and scouts on the frontiers of the American West.