| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.3 | The History Cooperative

*Forgotten Lives: African Americans in South Dakota.* By Betti Vanepps-Taylor. (Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society, 2008. xv + 287 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $17.95, paper.)
Vanepps-Taylor's Forgotten Lives reveals that territorial historians failed to mention the Buffalo Soldiers stationed at four forts in the 1880s—despite their substantial aid to flood victims—and also omitted the aid provided flood victims by the 25th Infantry at Fort Randall (p. 4). Her fine study makes clear that African Americans were not so much missing from the Dakota frontier as under reported. Even worse, their many contributions were handed to Europeans. She uncovers a host of African American pioneers—"miners, Buffalo Soldiers, adventurers, river men, homesteaders, barbers, cooks, land speculators, lawyers, doctors, business owners" and boatmen on the Upper Missouri (p. 2).	1
She begins with the Lewis and Clark expedition's York, Clark's trusted slave and companion ("my man York") since childhood (p. 20). An agile hunter, rifleman, and fisherman, York also emerges as a devoted husband who longed for and sent gifts to his wife. But at journey's end—when others of the expedition received 320 acres—"York received nothing" (p. 19). He was returned to slavery, his wife remained in Kentucky with another owner, and not until 1815 was he freed to run a freighting business between Louisville and Nashville.	. . .

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