A riveting and previously untold history of the American West, as seen by the pioneering women who advocated for their rights amidst challenges of migration and

The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one

If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers

Black women were always part of America's westward expansion. Some escaped slavery to live with the Native Americans, while others traveled west after the Civil