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Black settlers in rural Wisconsin / by Zachary Cooper.

Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1977.

1977

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 96-286Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberIEC 79-2026Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington's Negro pioneer ... : George Washington Bush.

Seattle : Congress of Racial Equality, [1967?]

1967

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 16-630Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberJAX B-2339Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Sylvia Stark, a pioneer : a biography / by Victoria Scott & Ernest Jones ; illustrated by Karen Lewis.

Seattle, Wash. : Open Hand Pub. ; New York, NY : Distributed by Talman Co., c1992.

1992

0 resources

The Black west / WCVB-TV, Boston ; produced by Karl Nurse ; directed by Larry Jordon.

United States : WCVB-TV, 1984-02-29.

1984

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-101 Service copy Sc Visual VRB-1952 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-101Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth : mountaineer, scout, and pioneer, and chief of the Crow nation of Indians : with illustrations / written from his own dictation, by T.D. Bonner.

New York : Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, 1858.

1858

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Rare B-Beckwourth (Beckwourth, J.P. Life and adventures...)Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives.

African Americans : voices of triumph. Perseverance / by the editors of Time-Life Books.

Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1993.

1993

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 94-332Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 94-56Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The story of "Stagecoach" Mary Fields / by Robert H. Miller ; illustrated by Cheryl Hanna.

Englewood Cliff, N.J. : Silver Burdett Press, 1994.

1994

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 95-310Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Black frontiers : a history of African American heroes in the Old West / by Lillian Schlissel.

New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995.

1995

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 95-485Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The conquest; the story of a Negro pioneer, by the pioneer. Lincoln, Neb., Woodruff Press, 1913.

Miami, Fla., Mnemosyne Pub. Co. [1969]

1969-1913

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 00-1011Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Black frontiersman : the memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, first Black graduate of West Point / compiled and edited with introduction and notes by Theodore D. Harris.

Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, c1997.

1997

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 97-662Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberIEC 97-12710Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Wagon train : a family goes west in 1865 / Courtni C. Wright ; illustrated by Gershom Griffith.

New York : Holiday House, c1995.

1995

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 98-337Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African American pioneers and homesteaders.

Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub. Co., 1999.

1999

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 99-1772Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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I have heard of a land / by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper.

[New York] : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998.

1998

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 00-86Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Black pioneers : an untold story / by William Loren Katz.

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1999.

1999

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 99-787Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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A Salute to Black pioneers / edited by Richard L. Green and Dorothy M. Love-Carroll ; illustrated by S. Gaston Dodson ; foreword by Charles A. Taylor

[Chicago, IL : Empak Enterprises], c1986.

1986

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 99-3461Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Bound by blood / Charles R. Goodman.

Los Angeles, Calif. : Holloway House Pub. Co., c1993.

1993

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc C 00-473Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Deadwood Dick : a biographical novel / by Steven C. Levi.

Los Angeles, Calif. : Holloway House, c1988.

1988

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc C 00-470Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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James Beckwourth / Raymond Friday Locke.

Los Angeles, Calif. : Melrose Square Pub. Co., c1995.

1995

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc C 00-422Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African American frontiers : slave narratives and oral histories / Alan Govenar.

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000.

2000

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 01-55Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberJFF 02-3328Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Black masculinity and the frontier myth in American literature / Michael K. Johnson.

Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2002.

2002

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 04-55Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Fugitive slave in the Gold Rush : life and adventures of James Williams / James Williams ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Malcolm J. Rohrbough.

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2002]

2002-1873

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 03-1611Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Family records of the African American pioneers of Tampa and Hillsborough County / Canter Brown, Jr. & Barbara Gray Brown.

Tampa, Fla. : University of Tampa Press, 2003.

2003

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 03-1465Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The story of Jean Baptiste Du Sable / by Robert H. Miller ; illustrated by Richard Leonard.

Parsippany, NJ : Silver Press, c1995.

1995

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 04-412Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Black settlers in rural Wisconsin / by Zachary Cooper.

Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1994, c1977.

1994-1977

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 04-1481Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Bound for Canaan / Margaret Blair Young and Darius Aidan Gray.

Salt Lake City, Utah : Bookcraft, c2002.

2002

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 04-952Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The last mile of the way / Margaret Blair Young and Darius Aidan Gray.

Salt Lake City, Utah : Bookcraft/Deseret Book Co., c2003.

2003

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 04-953Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Mountain man; the life of Jim Beckwourth [by] Marian T. Place. Illus. by Paul Williams.

London : Crowell-Collier Press, [1970]

1970

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 07-558Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Bones Hooks : pioneer Negro cowboy / by Bruce G. Todd.

Gretna, La : Pelican Pub. Co., c2005.

2005

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 07-2750Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The St. Louis African American community and the Exodusters / Bryan M. Jack.

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.

2007

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 08-601Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Archy Lee : a California fugitive slave case / Rudolph M. Lapp ; foreword by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore.

Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2008.

2008-1969

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 08-935Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Allensworth, the freedom colony : a California African American township / Alice C. Royal, with Mickey Ellinger and Scott Braley ; photographs by Scott Braley.

Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2008.

2008

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 08-1641Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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James Pierson Beckwourth portrait collection [graphic].

[198-?]-[199-?]

199-199

1 item

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Beckwourth, James PiersonItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Black pioneers : images of the Black experience on the North American frontier / John W. Ravage ; foreword by Quintard Taylor.

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2008.

2008

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 09-217Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The personal history of Rachel DuPree / Ann Weisgarber.

London : Pan, 2009.

2009

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 10-517Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Beckwourth : one-act version / by Mark Weston.

Quincy, MA : Baker's Plays, 2005.

2005

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 10-248 no. 1-4Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Beckwourth : the later years / by Mark Weston.

Quincy, MA : Baker's Plays, c2006.

2006

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 10-248 no. 1-4Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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AAGS, Inc. presents-- : Harrison Lee as Jim Beckwourth : Saturday, March 27, 1999.

Freeport, N.Y. : AAGS, Inc., 1999.

1999

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 10-248 no. 1-4Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African Americans in the West / Douglas Flamming.

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2009.

2009

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberIW 10-7233Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Bury me in a free land : African-American political culture and the settlement movement in the antebellum and wartime Midwest / by Jennifer Rebecca Harbour.

2008.

2008

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 11-455Item locationOffsite

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Les noirs à la conquête de l'Ouest / François Duban.

Paris : Vendémiaire, [2013]

2013

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 13-1513Item locationOffsite

African Americans in mid-Missouri : from pioneers to ragtimers / Rose M. Nolen.

Charleston : History Press, 2010.

2010

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 14-426Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable, first Chicagoan (non-Indian) : a Black man, his life and accomplishments / by Mrs. Arsenia Williams.

Chicago, Illinois : Distributed as a public service by the Frank London Brown Historical Association, [not before 1968]

1968-19

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 14-59Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Trabue Woods of values / Martha R. Bireda.

Tokyo, Japan : Blue Ocean Press, [2014]

2014

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 15-94Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African American lives in St. Louis, 1763-1865 : slavery, freedom and the West / Dale Edwyna Smith.

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

2017

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 17-694Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dangerous subjects : James D. Saules and the rise of black exclusion in Oregon / Kenneth Coleman.

Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2017]

2017-2017

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 18-2Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Pioneers of the blues revival / Steve Cushing ; introduction by Barry Lee Pearson.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]

2018-2018

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 19-164Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver / Tami Charles ; illustrated by Claire Almon.

Chicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, [2019]

2019-2019

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 19-280Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Black pioneers : true faces of the west.

[Laramie?] : University of Wyoming Television, 1996.

1996

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-1085Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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