African American family in the Old West. It certainly wasn’t easy for them to get there, as recorded in one family’s account: “Being Black, Mr. Boyer and Mr. Keyes could not travel by stagecoach or rail, nor could they get secure passage on a wagon train. Undeterred, they set out on foot, and walked the entire distance from Pellum (nowadays known as “Pelham”), Georgia to Roswell, New Mexico a distance of 1,200 miles.”
