The Black West: A Documentary and Pictoral History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States William Loren Katz. Harlem Moon, $17.95 (318pp) ISBN 978-0-7679-1231-0 ...

As a high school teacher and in some 40 books written under the name William Loren Katz, ... Among Mr. Katz’s other books were “The Black West” (1973) and “Black Indians” (1986).

The talk was filled with descriptions of people who, Mr. Katz said, made the West but seldom made it into the history books. A number of the black pioneers that Mr. Katz described had close ...

Black Indians: A Hidden HeritageMany know William Loren Katz through his forty books -- which include such award-winning titles as Black Indians, The Black West, and Black Women of the Old West.