Suggested Reading 

 

If you would like to learn more about Black pioneers, lawmen, and cowboys, I recommend these books. 

 

 

For younger readers:

 

Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West by Lillian Schlissel, Aladdin Books, 2000. 

 

Black Women of the Old West by William Loren Katz, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995. 

 

Days of the Exodusters by Corrine Wentworth, Harcourt School Publishers, 2002. 

 

Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town by A. LaFaye, Albert Whitman and Company, 2019. 

 

Journey to a Promised Land by Allison Lassieur, Jolly Fish, 2019. 

 

Wagons Wheels by Barbara Breener, Harper Collins, 1984. 

 

For teens and adults:

 

African American Women of the Old West by Tricia Martineau Wagner, TwoDot, 2007. 

 

Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, Behind the Badge edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles, University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. 

 

Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, Sensational, and Little-Known Stories from History by Tricia Martineau Wagner, TwoDot, 2010. 

 

Black Exodusters in Flint Hills of Kansas: Gupton-Harding Families by Karen Scroggins Campbell, Karen S./Scroggins, 2017. 

 

The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States by William Loren Katz, Touchstone Press, 1996. 

 

Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction by Nell Irvin Painter, W. W. Norton and Company, 1992.