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In three pages this paper discusses the theme of this important historical text that explores the black experience and contributions to the American West, examines how the reader can determine the source of the author’s information without footnotes or endnotes, considers whether or not the text is objective or biased, and assesses its value. There are no other sources listed.
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we have been silently saddled with the myth that the frontier cast of characters included only white and red men... black men and women do not appear" (Katz 1).
In his important text The Black West, historian and Smithsonian Institute consultant William Loren Katz attempts to right a wrong that has gone uncorrected for far too long. While
this book certainly addresses the black struggles to successfully survive oppression in the society of white America throughout its unfortunately often-prejudicial history, this is not its lone theme. Katz
seeks to counter historical exclusion with the inclusion of inspiring stories of the black journey and settlement in the Old West that textbooks have previously overlooked. There is, for
example, cattle rustler and impressive bronco rider Isom Dart (whose given name was Ned Huddleston), the name and reputation of which the vast majority of Americans remain unfamiliar. In
the opinion of one of his contemporaries, "I have seen all the great riders, but for all around skill as a cowman, Isom Dart was unexcelled... He could outride any
of them; but never entered a contest" (Katz 158). Perhaps even more significantly is that the author takes great pains to recognize the black women of the Western frontier
including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colorado gold miner Aunt Clara Brown who refused to allow racial oppression shake either her Christian faith or
her steadfast belief in humankind, Stagecoach Mary Fields who could hold her liquor and her own against any pistol-packing male counterpart while showing extraordinary protection and compassion to those in
need, and independent pioneer Elvira Conley who settled alone in Sheridan, Kansas where for years she owned and operated a laundry service while cultivating friendships with famous customers like Buffalo
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