United States – Montana
Charles Young (1864-1922)
Colonel Charles Young enjoyed a decorated military career after his graduation from West Point Military Academy in 1889. A Buffalo...
York (1770-1832)
York was an African American slave best known for his participation in the (Meriwether) Lewis and (William) Clark Expedition of...
Sarah Gammon Bickford (1855-1931)
Sarah Blair was born into slavery on Christmas Day, 1855, on the Blair Plantation near Greensboro, North Carolina. After the...
Joseph Blackburn Bass (1863-1934)
Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1863, Joseph Blackburn Bass made his mark in the newspaper business in Kansas, Montana,...
Mary Fields (1832-1914)
Born enslaved in Tennessee, this girl came west with Ursuline nuns after being freed. Not known for her quiet temperament,...
John Ware (1845?-1905)
John Ware was born a slave in South Carolina circa 1845. When the Civil War ended, he decided to exercise...
James Pierson Beckwourth (c. 1805 – 1866)
If any man of any color attained the ranks of legendary in the American West, it was James Beckwourth (also:...
James Presley Ball (1825-1904)
The daguerreotypist James Presley (J.P.) Ball was born in 1825 in Virginia, probably a Freeman. As a young man he...
Isaiah Dorman (1832-1876)
Isaiah Dorman was born free in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1832 although the precise date of his birth is unknown. The date...
