Slavery in the west / Mormons and slavery : a closer look / Reconstruction on the frontier : the equal rights struggle in Colorado, 1865-1867 / Buffalo soldiers in the American west, 1865-1900 / Improbable ambassadors : Black soldiers at Fort Douglas, Utah, 1896-1899 / Blacks and the coal mines of western Washington, 1888-1896 / Black cowboys in the American west, 1866-1900 / Integration, exclusion, or segregation? the "color line" in Kansas, 1878-1900 / Oklahoma's all-Black towns / American daughters : Black women in the west / Still in chains : Black women in western prisons, 1865-1910 / Helena, Montana's Black community, 1900-1912 / Development of African American newspapers in the American west, 1880-1914 / African American frontier : a bibliographic essay