Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930 outlaw Evoking the grand expeditionary journals

Evoking the grand expeditionary journals of the 19th century

and proving that makers producing fine work through traditional methods could be paid fairly for their efforts and rightfully be considered artists

The cowboy learned his craft from the vaqueros of New Spain and Texas when it was the northern territory of Mexico

Finished size: 30" x 25" (poster size)

her two children

Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930 outlaw Evoking the grand expeditionary journalsWinner of the Western Writers of America SPUR Award and the Western Association of Women Historians Gita Chaudhuri Prize! Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (18521931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. Race and the Wild West is the first full length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into race and belonging in