This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the book, Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier by John W. Ravage.
This book was published in 1997 and features photographs of the Black experience in the western United States.
“Using public and private collections in every western state and in Canada, Ravage has gathered more than three hundred photographs, line drawings, lithographs, stereoviews, and other images.” There is also a newer edition from 2009 that “adds sections on Black entertainers and ranchers, a chapter on the dating of historic photographs and their genealogical significance, as well as an expanded bibliography. All aid understanding of the Black frontier experience.”