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American West Museum - Denver, Colorado
The Black American West Museum & Heritage Center's mission
and goals are the interpretation, collection, housing, displaying,
exhibiting, and preserving of histrical artifacts, documents and other
memorabilia which tell the history and relate the stories of Black
men and women who helped settle and develop the great American
West. This approach allows visual artistic inculcation of the
rich and colorful contributions of Black pioneers in the western United
States. We tell it like it was!
Little Known Facts:
- Nearly one third of cowboys in the building of the American
West were black.
- Black families came West in covered wagons; established self-sufficient
all-Black towns, filling every job from barber to teacher, state
legislator to doctor.
- African Americans were some of the West's earliest millionaires,
owning much of the West's most valuable real estate and many of
its prominent businesses.
- One of the first gold discoveries in Idaho Springs, Colorado
was made by Henry Parker, a Black mine owner.
- Blacks were also military heroes, taking San Juan Hill with
Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. It is a little known
fact that the all-Black 10th Cavalry should really
be credited with that victory.
It' true, African American people played a major role in the settling
and shaping of the American West. Yet, until now, this story has
gone virtually untold. From the early fur trade until today, the
museum's exhibits document this history, with a special emphasis
on Colorado and early Denver. It is a story not found in history
books, but we tell it like it was.
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