Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930 outlaw Heck any time

Heck any time

Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West

"I remember taking a deep breath and thinking

relentless work ethic

Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930 outlaw Heck any timeWinner of the Western Writers of America SPUR Award and the Western Association of Women Historians Gita Chaudhuri Prize! Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (18521931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. Race and the Wild West is the first full length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into race and belonging in