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Black 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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Jim T. Walters
5265 N. Academy Blvd. Ste. 3300
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Office: (719) 495-1745
Cell: (719) 460-0424
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