Race and the wild West : Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870-1930

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Arata, Laura Joanne, 1984- author

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"The biography of Sarah Bickford, born a slave in Tennessee, who became the first African American female public utilities owner of the Virginia City Water Company and spent three decades promoting...

"The biography of Sarah Bickford, born a slave in Tennessee, who became the first African American female public utilities owner of the Virginia City Water Company and spent three decades promoting tourism at a historic building where the Montana Vigilantes lynched five men"--

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