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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction
  4. Part 1. Party Animals
  5. Part 2. Secret Languages
  6. Part 3. Marks of the Beast
  7. Part 4. Fonts of Knowledge
  8. Part 5. The Impossible Return
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of Illustrations
  11. Bibliography
  12. Colophon

Bibliography

  • “Meet John Ware — Legendary Black Cowboy.” Secret Life of Canada, produced by CBC Podcasts, 5 February 2019. www.cbc.ca/radio/secretlifeofcanada/meet-john-ware-legendary-black-cowboy-1.5006879.
  • Adam, Karla. “A Crown Branded onto Bodies Links British Monarchy to Slave Trade.” Washington Post. 27 September 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/27/british-monarchy-slave-trade-brand/.
  • Baird, Craig. “Rancher John Ware.” Canadian History Ehx. 20 January 2020. canadaehx.com/2020/01/20/rancher-john-ware/.
  • Baldwin, James. No Name in the Street. First Vintage International Edition. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.
  • Baldwin, James. Nobody Knows My Name. First Vintage International Edition. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
  • Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. First Vintage International Edition. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
  • Bickersteth, J. Burgon. The Land of Open Doors: Being Letters from Western Canada, 1911–13. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976.
  • Black, Olivia. “Representations of Queer Cowboys in History, Literature, and Film.” Bachelor’s thesis, Providence College, 2025. digitalcommons.providence.edu/history_undergrad_theses/87/.
  • British Library, London. South Sea Company Archives. Additional Manuscripts. MS 2557, f018r.
  • Carlos, Ann M., Jennifer Key, and Jill L. Dupree. “Learning and the Creation of Stock-Market Institutions: Evidence from the Royal African and Hudson’s Bay Companies, 1670–1700.” Journal of Economic History 58, no. 2 (June 1998): 318–344. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700020532.
  • Carter, Velma, and Wanda Leffler Akili. The Window Of Our Memories. St. Albert, AB: Black Cultural Research Society of Alberta, 1981.
  • Centennial Book Committee F.W.U.A. High Prairie Local 204. Pioneers Who Blazed the Trail: Local History of High Prairie, Alberta. High Prairie, AB: Centennial Book Committee F.W.U.A. High Prairie Local 204, 1968.
  • Clarke, George Elliott. “Must All Blackness Be American?: Locating Canada in Borden’s Tightrope Time, or Nationalizing Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic.” In Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature, 73. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
  • Dixon, Tyler. “Legendary Cowboy.” Calgary Guardian. 19 May 2016. calgaryguardian.com/legendary-cowboy/.
  • Donnan, Elizabeth, ed. Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America. Vol. 2, The Eighteenth Century. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1931.
  • Finney, Malcolm Awadajin. “Substratal Influence on the Morphosyntactic Properties of Krio.” Linguistic Discovery 2, no. 2 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.266.
  • Foran, Max, ed. Grant MacEwan’s Journals. Edmonton, AB: Lone Pine, 1986.
  • Franke-Ruta, Garance. “How ‘Washington’ Became the Blackest Name in America.” The Atlantic, 21 February 2011. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/02/how-washington-became-the-blackest-name-in-america/71511/.
  • Fyle, Clifford N., and Eldred D. Jones. A Krio–English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press and Sierra Leone University Press, 1980.
  • Goldstein-Shirley, David. “Black Cowboys In the American West: A Historiographical Review.” Ethnic Studies Review 20, no. 1 (1997): 79–89.
  • Grizzle, Stanley G. My Name’s Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1998.
  • Guan, Furui. “Chinese Cowboys: A Story of Resilience in the American Old West.” Preprint, ScienceOpen Preprints, 25 July 2024, DOI: 10.14293/PR2199.000972.v1.
  • High Prairie & Area History Book Society. Trails We Blazed Together: History of Grouard, High Prairie & Surrounding Areas. High Prairie, AB: High Prairie & Area History Book Society, 1997.
  • High River Pioneer and Old Timers’ Association. Leaves from the Medicine Tree. High River, AB: High River Pioneer and Old Timers’ Association, 1960.
  • Historica Canada Teacher Community. “John Ware.” Historica Canada Education Portal. Accessed 15 December 2025. http://education.historicacanada.ca/en/tools/155.
  • hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation, 2 ed. New York: Routledge, 2015.
  • Hunt, Maria C. “‘A History That’s Been Suppressed’: The Black Cowboy Story Is 200 Years Old.” The Guardian, 19 May 2024, www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-interactive/2024/may/19/black-cowboys-cowgirls-rodeos.
  • Ings, Frederick William. Before the Fences: Tales from the Midway Ranch. Nanton, AB: Nanton Historical Society, 1980.
  • Kersting, Dulce L. Diversity on the Open Range: Exploring the Experiences of Minority Cowboys During the Nineteenth Century. Jerry O’Neal Research Fellowship Report. Missoula, MT: Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, 2011. files.cfc.umt.edu/cesu/NPS/UMT/2011/O’Neal_fellowship_Kersting_report.pdf.
  • Levenson, Jay A., Diogo Ramada Curto, and Jack C. Richard, eds. Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th & 17th Centuries. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2007.
  • MacEwan, Grant. John Ware’s Cow Country. Edmonton: Institute of Applied Art, Ltd., 1960.
  • Mather, Ken. Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide: Early Ranching in B.C. and Alberta. Surrey, BC: Heritage House, 2013.
  • McKittrick, Katherine. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
  • Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
  • Moten, Fred. In the Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
  • Mroz, Mike A. “Black Cowboys of the Cattle Frontier.” Legacy 16, no. 1 (2016): 1–13. opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/legacy/vol16/iss1/3.
  • Porter, Kenneth W. “Negro Labor in the Western Cattle Industry, 1866–1900.” Labor History 10, no. 3 (Summer 1969): 346–74.
  • Postma, Johannes. The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.
  • Sierra Leone Public Archives. “Liberated African Department; Register Nos 7508–9758 [1815–1816].” British Library Endangered Archives Programme, EAP443/1/17/5. eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP443-1-17-5.
  • Sinclair, Niigaan. Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre. Toronto: McLelland & Stewart, 2025.
  • Vernon, Karina. “The Black Prairies: History, Subjectivity, Writing.” PhD diss., University of Victoria, 2008.
  • Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. SlaveVoyages. www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/trans-atlantic#voyages.
  • Wai, Zubairu. Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • Walls, Andrew F. “Crowther, Samuel Ajayi (A): Foremost African Christian of the Nineteenth Century.” In Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Accessed 10 December 2025. dacb.org/stories/nigeria/legacy-crowther/.
  • Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Whitman, T. Stephen. The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
  • Wynter, Sylvia. On Being Human as Praxis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.

Brand Books

  • Alberta and Saskatchewan Brand Book. Edmonton [?]: n.p., 1907. https://archive.org/details/albertasaskatche00albe/mode/2up
  • Alberta Cattle and Horse Brands. Edmonton, J.W. Jeffrey, 1914.
  • Alberta Department of Agriculture. Alberta Horse and Cattle Brands, 1915. Edmonton: J.W. Jeffery, 1916. https://archive.org/details/albertahorsecatt00unse_0/mode/2up.
  • Alberta Department of Agriculture. Alberta Horse and Cattle Brands, 1916, 1917, 1918. Edmonton: J.W. Jeffery, 1919. https://archive.org/details/albertahorsecatt00unse_1/mode/2up.
  • Alberta Department of Agriculture. Alberta Horse and Cattle Brands, 1919–20. Edmonton: J.W. Jeffery, 1921. https://archive.org/details/albertahorsecatt00unse_2/mode/2up .
  • Alberta Department of Agriculture. Supplement to Alberta Horse and Cattle Brands, 1914. Edmonton: J.W. Jeffery, 1915. https://archive.org/details/albertahorsecatt00unse/mode/2up
  • Henderson, Jas. Henderson’s Rancher’s Directory and Brand Book. 1 ed. Winnipeg: W.T. Walker, 1888. https://n2t.net/ark:/69429/m0zw18k78v66; https://archive.org/details/hendersonsnorthw00unse/page/n1/mode/2up
  • Henderson’s NorthWest Brand Book. 2 ed. Winnipeg: Henderson Directory Company, 1889. Canadiana. https://n2t.net/ark:/69429/m08p5v69cn2d
  • North West Brand Book. Calgary: Calgary Herald, 1900. https://n2t.net/ark:/69429/m0862b857507.
  • North West Brand Book: Supplement No. 1. Calgary: Calgary Herald, 1904. https://n2t.net/ark:/69429/m0862b857507.

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