352 pages
14 photographs, 5 illustrations, 1 map, 6 tables, 1 appendix, index
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface: Public History and the Birth of an Archive
Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology
Introduction: Colonial Erosion
1. The Golden West: Black Settlers to Montana, 1877–1917
2. Making Black Settler Space: Confronting the Colonial Color Line
3. Great Debates: Black Settler Politics in the New Age
4. Thinking with Magpies: Montana’s Conservation Movement and the Occlusion of the Black Wilderness Experience
5. Colonial Kinships: Sexuality, the Family, and Anti-Miscegenation Law in Montana
6. History among the Sediments: On the Entanglements of Race and Region
Epilogue: The Endurance of Black Montana
Appendix: Montana Homesteader Displacement Data following 1917
Notes
Bibliography
Index