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Blacks in the westward movement / organized by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Smithsonian Institution ; circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

Title
Blacks in the westward movement / organized by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Smithsonian Institution ; circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
Author
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum.
Publication
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975.

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Additional Authors
  • Ebon Research Systems.
  • Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service.
Description
57 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 28 cm
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • African Americans > History > Exhibitions
  • Pioneers, Black > West (U.S.) > 19th century
  • African Americans
  • West (U.S.) > History
  • West United States
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
Note
  • "Smithsonian Institution Press publication number 6090"--Title page verso.
  • "Compiled by Ebon Research Systems and Sagittarius. Designed by Gerald Landon"--Title page verso.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I. Early Explorations. Early Explorers of the Americas' Explorers from the Old world; Estevanico; Dutch and English Slave Traders in the New World -- Part II. Fur Traders and Mountain Men. Trappers and Traders; The Bongas; Edward Rose; James Beckwourth; Jean Baptiste Point du Sable; The Haitian Revolution; The Louisiana Purchase; The Lewis and Clark Expedition; Jacob Dodson -- Part III. Trail of Tears. Blacks among the Indians; Indian Movement Westward; Andrew Jackson; Florida; The Seminole Wars; Chief Abraham -- Part IV. The Black Exodus. The Missouri Compromise; The Dred Scott Decision; John Brown's Raids; The Civil War; The Emancipation Proclamation; Reconstruction; The Black Exodus -- Part V. Texas. Early Settlers; Black Texas Heroes -- Part VI. California. The Far West; California; William Alexander Leidesdorff; Mary Ellen (Mammy) Pleasant -- Part VII. The Last Frontier. The Pacific Northwest; George Washington Bush; George Washington; Other Areas of the Last Frontier -- Part VIII. The Buffalo Soldiers. Black Recruits; Seminole-Negro Scouts; Isaiah Dorman -- Cattlemen: Lawful and Lawless. Black Cowboys on the Trail; Bose Ikard; Nat Love; Bill Pickett; Outlaws and Lawmen -- Part X. Enterprising Blacks.
LCCN
^^^75600079^
OCLC
2135817
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library