Experience the old American West through authentic, vintage photographs of hardworking African Americans, who contributed much to the building of the nation in the pivotal period between 1865 and the early 1900s. Read about brave settlers, ranging from homesteaders, soldiers, civil-rights crusaders, cowboys and scouts who exhausted themselves but gained many victories trying to tame the wild frontier. Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West is by Lillian Schissel, also the author of several books about the western frontier for young readers ages eight to 12. | Black Frontiers by Lillian Schlissel, Paperback | Indigo Chapters