All of the following books would be useful for students of junior high age and older:

Durham, Philip, and Everett L. Jones, The Adventures of the Negro Cowboys (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1983; also, Bantam Books, 1969).

Haskins, Jim, Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions (New York, NY: Walker and Co., 1992).

Hine, Darlene Clark, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1993).

Hughes, Langston, Milton Meltzer, and C. Eric Lincoln, African-American History: Four Centuries of Black Life (New York: Scholastic Inc., 1990).

Katz, William Loren, Black People Who Made the Old West (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1992).

Logan, Rayford W., and Michael R. WInston (eds.), Dictionary of American Negro Biography (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983).

Love, Nat, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as Deadwood Dick, by Himself (Irvine, CA: Reprint Services Corp., 1991).

Miller, Robert H., Reflections of a Black Cowboy, Book One: Cowboys (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1991).

Miller, Robert H., Reflections of a Black Cowboy, Book Two: The Buffalo Soldiers (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1991).

Creative Fire, a volume in the three-part African Americans: Voices of Triumph series (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1993).

Leadership, a volume in the three-part African Americans: Voices of Triumph series (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1993).

Perseverance, a volume in the three-part African Americans: Voices of Triumph series (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1993).