Race and the Wild West - Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870-1930 - Laura J. Arata

Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford made her way to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. This is the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into race and belonging in the American West around the turn of the twentieth century.