Notes From The Frontier

Oscar Micheaux is not a household name like Martin Scorcese or Frank Capra or John Ford. But it should be.

The legend was a towering, six-foot-plus black woman named “Stagecoach Mary.” And she could drink, smoke, cuss, fistfight and shoot.

Buffalo soldiers served west of the Mississippi, mainly to protect settlers moving West and fight in Native American conflicts.