THE TRUE WEST: REAL STORIES ABOUT BLACK COWBOYS, WOMEN SHARPSHOOTERS, NATIVE AMERICAN RODEO STARS, PIONEERING VAQUEROS, AND THE UNSUNG EXPLORERS, BUILDERS, AND HEROES WHO SHAPED THE AMERICAN WEST

This book tours the history of the American West through people often left out of familiar Western stories. Its subjects include Black cowboys, Latino and Native American cowboys, women, sharpshooters, rodeo stars, vaqueros, explorers, builders, and other figures. It notes an estimate that one in four cowboys was Black, Latino, Native American, or a woman, broadening the picture of who shaped the West.