Blacks in the American West: Explorers, Trappers, Frontiersmen, and Pioneers
This is Part 1 of a 3 Part series on African Americans in the western United States. It covers explorers, trappers, frontiersmen, and pioneers from the 1500s to the early 1900s. This Episode of the podcast covers Esteban de Durantes, York of Lewis & Clark, Cut Nose Rose, Jim Beckwourth, Moses Black Harris, Jacob Dodson, Oscar Crosby, Hark Lay, and Green Flake, Clara Brown, George Alfred Frazier Monroe, Nathan Harrison, Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves, Mr. Greenbury Logan, & more.
Select Sources:
Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, Behind the Badge Edited by Bruce A Glasrud & Michael N Searles
Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West By Dale Lowell Morgan
A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the American West by David Roberts
The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians By James P. Beckwourth & T. D. Bonner
The Amazing True Story of Nathan Harrison by Daniel Weiss in Archaeology Magazine, March/April 2021
The Black West by William Loren Katz
Sweet Freedom's Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869 by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
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https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GL006
http://gregnokes.com/2017/04/03/black-harris-northwest-mountain-man-of-mystery/
https://georgiahistory.com/education-outreach/online-exhibits/featured-historical-figures/john-charles-fremont/first-and-second-expeditions/
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-guy-who-freed-the-slaves-ahead-of-schedule-a701029ba7dc
https://blackthen.com/jacob-dobson-first-known-person-african-descent-nevada/
https://nikigbo.com/2021/02/10/california-love-jacob-dodson-john-grider-and-other-black-members-of-the-bear-flag-party/
https://rsc.byu.edu/far-away-west/john-c-fremonts-1843-44-western-expedition-its-influence-mormon-settlement-utah
http://www.blacklatterdaysaints.org/abel
https://www.nps.gov/people/elijah-abel.htm
https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/burton-john
https://www.nps.gov/oreg/learn/historyculture/upload/Sweet-Freedom-s-Plains-508.pdf
https://www.beckwourth.org
https://www.blackpast.org
https://www.historycolorado.org/story/2020/02/19/james-beckwourth-african-americans-history-and-west
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/jim-beckwourth
https://www.pueblolibrary.org/Beckwourth
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/logan-greenbury