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 July 3, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1967.
