Black Heroes of the Wild West, 

Автор: Edelstein Robert
Название: Legends of the Wild West: True Tales of Rebels and Heroes
ISBN: 1951274350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781951274351
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Описание: For several hundred years, the West had been the land of dreams, an extraordinary region of hope, expansion and opportunity where European countries--and then the young USA itself--sent their finest explorers to plant seeds in a seemingly untapped, open landscape. This spirit captured the popular imagination in the Wild West, those raucous 30 years between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of a new century. Within these pages, readers will explore true tales of rebels and heroes such as General George Custer, Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Annie Oakley, and Sitting Bull, among others.

The Wild West was the American Dream on steroids. It was an age of gunfights and gold rushes, cowboys and Comanches, with the likes of Buffalo Bill, Jesse James and Billy the Kid making their names. It forged extraordinary legends and even bigger lies, with everything fueled by dime novels written back East that encouraged folks to grab their share of a promise that was difficult for this hard land to keep.

This book looks at all these mythical characters, the start of the railroad across the nation, the cost it all dealt to the Native Americans whose land was lost, and the way Hollywood still keeps the dream alive. As historian Richard White says, "People could go west and no matter their failures elsewhere, they had an opportunity to remake themselves. It's a symbol for a kind of individualism that actually doesn't exist in the West, but mythically it does."

Название: Black Heroes of the Wild West
ISBN: 1943145512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943145515
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Young love, meddling aunts, heart-to-hearts with friends real and imagined, Philistia`s world is that of an ordinary student. Except in Palestine, and with your father in jail, nothing is ordinary. With trees uprooted around her, she seeks a place of refuge, somewhere she can plant a memory for the ones she`s lost, for the people who are vanishing.

Автор: Keith Ryan Cartwright
Название: Black Cowboys of Rodeo: Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West
ISBN: 1496226100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496226105
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the legacies of their pursuits intersect with those of America’s struggle for racial equality, human rights, and social justice.
Keith Ryan Cartwright brings to life the stories of such pioneers as Cleo Hearn, the first Black cowboy to professionally rope in the Rodeo Cowboy Association; Myrtis Dightman, who became known as the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo after being the first Black cowboy to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo; and Tex Williams, the first Black cowboy to become a state high school rodeo champion in Texas.

Black Cowboys of Rodeo is a collection of one hundred years of stories, told by these revolutionary Black pioneers themselves and set against the backdrop of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the civil rights movement, and eventually the integration of a racially divided country.