Great Plains Homesteaders.

The main focus of the text is the exploration of significant historical narratives surrounding African American representation in Western films, as presented in Mia Mask’s book, *Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western*. The book argues that African American Westerns serve as revisionist histories that challenge the erasure of Black cowboys and settlers from the American West's mythological narratives. Mask analyzes films from the 1960s to the 1990s, highlighting their sociopolitical relevance and the contributions of notable African American actors. Additionally, the text discusses Richard Edwards' *Great Plains Homesteaders*, which examines the impact of homesteaders on American culture and acknowledges the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, and Blake A. Watson's *Kansas and Kansans in World War I*, which honors the contributions of Kansans during the Great War. [Extracted from the article]