African-Americans in the West and Southwest
For students and faculty in the
SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books in the Fort Library
provides a starting point for research
on the contributions of African-Americans to the
Southwest and West. Use PONI to
determine the call numbers for these titles and to find
other books on your topic.
Journals are shelved alphabetically, by title.
African Americans on the Western
Frontier (1998)
Black Cowboy: The Life and Legend
of George McJunkin(who
discovered
the Folsom Man), (Folsom, 1992)
The Black West: A Documentary and
Pictorial History of the African American
Role in the Westward Expansion of
the United States
(Katz, 1996).
Bridges: New Mexican Black Women,
1900-1950(Mock,
1985).
In Search of the Racial Frontier:
African Americans in the American West,
1528-1990 (Taylor, Quintard; 1998)
"The Ku Klux Klan in Arizona,
1921-1925," (Abbey, Sue Wilson), Journal of
Arizona
History, 14:1 (Spring
1973)
The Negro Cowboys (Durham and Jones, 1983,
c1965).
New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900(Billington, M., 1991)
Racial Trends and Comparisons in
New Mexico During the Late 20th Century
"Through the Prism of Race: The Meaning of
African-American History in the
West (Taylor,
Quintard), in A New Significance: Re-envisioning the History of the
American
West
(Milner, ed., 1996)