Slavery in the west / W. Sherman Savage --
Mormons and slavery : a closer look / Newell G. Bringhurst --
Reconstruction on the frontier : the equal rights struggle in Colorado, 1865-1867 / Eugene H. Berwanger --
Buffalo soldiers in the American west, 1865-1900 / Monroe Lee Billington --
Improbable ambassadors : Black soldiers at Fort Douglas, Utah, 1896-1899 / Michael J. Clark --
Blacks and the coal mines of western Washington, 1888-1896 / Robert A. Campbell --
Black cowboys in the American west, 1866-1900 / Kenneth W. Porter --
Integration, exclusion, or segregation? the "color line" in Kansas, 1878-1900 / Randall B. Woods --
Oklahoma's all-Black towns / George O. Carney --
American daughters : Black women in the west / Glenda Riley --
Still in chains : Black women in western prisons, 1865-1910 / Anne M. Butler --
Helena, Montana's Black community, 1900-1912 / William L. Lang --
Development of African American newspapers in the American west, 1880-1914 / Gayle K. Berardi and Thomas W. Segady --
African American frontier : a bibliographic essay / Roger D. Hardaway.