| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000. Edited by Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. 390 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

In African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000, editors Quintard Taylor and Shirley Wilson Moore offer readers a rare opportunity to discover and uncover the often hidden stories of western African American women. This expansive eighteen-essay volume opens each section with a primary source. Diverse in nature, these essays traverse centuries and discuss women in several western territories and states. While many of the misconceptions of a white-only, cowboy-laden West no longer exist, discussions of the African American presence in the West often center on the experiences of African American men. This volume supplements our knowledge of the multi-cultural West by simply placing women of African descent in the story. Although several of the writers offer repetitive statements about the paucity of sources, this volume not only provides new information about the lives of women in the West, but it also asks us to include the perspectives of women when we discuss issues of labor, education, and civil rights.

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