West of the BorderExpanding the scope of American borderland and frontier literary scholarship, West of the Border examines the writings of nineteenth and turn of the century Native, African, Asian, and Anglo American frontier writers. This book views frontiers as human spaces where cultures make contact as it considers multicultural frontier writers who speak from west of the border. James P. Beckwourth, a half black fur trader; Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute