This exciting series provides students with gracefully written narratives about important aspects of the black experience in the United States. Blending original documents written by participants and observers with an insightful analysis of different periods in American history, each volume provides young readers with an understanding of the broad issues that this country faced as well as the daily struggles of ordinary African-American men and women.Quotations and information from primary sources, historical drawings, photographs, and maps lend immediacy to every narrative and an up-to-date bibliography and detailed index enhance the reference value of each volume.This volume details the contributions of African Americans in the settling of the West primarily during the nineteenth century. It also reveals aspects unique to African Americans, such as segregated towns, significant encounters with racism, and the clubs and organizations they formed to lend support.