Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930
- Author
- Laura J. Arata
- Series
- Race and Culture in the American West, vol. 17
- Content
- xviii + 285 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Norman: University of Oklahoma Press
- Publication notes
- Revised dissertation, Washington State University
- Description
- Reconstructed biography of Sarah Bickford, who was born a slave in Tennessee, fled to Montana Territory as a teenager, married two white men, and became a prominent business owner in a predominantly white community who also ran a tourist spot to acknowledge the lynchings of five African American men.
- Main subject
- Autobiography and Biography
Business and Work
History - ISBN
- 9780806164977 (pap.); 9780806168166 (ebook)
- Citation
- Arata, Laura J. Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930. Race and Culture in the American West, vol. 17. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Sylvia. Accessed June 26, 2022. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1967.
- Updated
- 03-17-2022