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well as this one. The themes of Blacks, Indians and frontier are interwoven and range broadly across time and space. The essays themselves cover many of the relative subjects from the early Carolina frontier of the 1670s, to the Texas and Western cattle frontiers of the late Nineteenth century and extending to the trapping and fur trade of the far Northwest. 
    The structure of the work is completed by the author's brief bibliographical-introductory essays on subjects that would have been required to make it a wholly comprehensive presentation that matched its title. The reader who would like to know where to go to find material on such usually neglected subjects as "Whaling" and "Mining" is given a useful introduction. The last of these brief groups of paragraphs tells of "The Crazy Snake Uprising, 1909: The Last Frontier Fight for Freedom," an episode during which, as Professor Porter tells us, "in a few sputters of rifle fire, ended the last attempt of allied frontier Negroes and Indians to defend by force of arms their rights to self-government and equality against the advance of a dominating white racist civilization."
    In his concluding sentences, the writer does not fail to point up the drama of the new and different revolution that began in 1909 with the unity of black and white that called for the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, "to fight in the courts and legislatures against the racial discrimination that the Creek and Seminole Negroes on Oklahoma's Hickory Ground were preparing to protest, ineffectually, through the muzzles of their Winchesters."
    As should be evident from the foregoing, this work differs from the great mass of the other titles in the Arno Press New York Times series, in that it is much more than the mere re-issues of a long-out-of-print and sometimes dated work of possibly limited interest. It brings back into circulation and makes available to interested students and popular readers as well, a great gold mine of material that would otherwise have to be painfully sought out. This is ample compensation for a format, dictated by a shoestring budget, that presents each of the major essays in a photo-offset reproduction from its original appearance in JNH and a number of other scholarly journals,-making it impossible for the author to synthesize his emendations and errata or to eliminate duplications in separately published articles as he undoubtedly would have wished.
    Dominating the whole, and as put together probably more valuable and worthwhile than anything else in print on the subject, are Porter's

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