Black Explorers, Cowboys & the West — Interactive Edition

Black Explorers, Cowboys & the West by Carlos L. Young Sr. — Interactive Edition. Volume 10 of the Left Out of the History Books series (The Digital Black Voice). The West was never all white — it was just written that way. This volume documents 23 lives and communities from 1528 to 1920, graded by their paper trail: Estevanico, who walked out of a shipwreck into legend; York, whose vote the Lewis and Clark journals recorded and whose freedom his owner withheld; James Beckwourth, whose memoir is quoted as a memoir, not gospel; Mary Fields, separated here from the tall tales into her documented star-route record; Bass Reeves, whose 3,000 arrests were his own 1901 count and print as such; and the builders of Nicodemus, Boley, Allensworth, and Blackdom. The famous "one in four cowboys was Black" claim is traced to its source and printed at its true size. Interactive Edition: 23 profiles plus the Henson coda, timeline, search, read-aloud, bookmarks, 10-question quiz.