Cross That River This is the story of Blue, a Louisiana slave who steals his master's prize stallion and rides west to freedom, after witnessing the selling of his father and the brutal whipping of another slave.

Blue Was Angry 3:08 Blue makes his way to freedom out west, but throughout his adventures, the ghost of slavery remains a part of his life.

Buffalo Soldiers 3:17 The Buffalo Solders (9th and 10th Cavalry) were essential to bringing law and order to the new, expanding frontier.

Mail Order Woman 4:03 Young women from the east often answered ads for mail order women" with the promise of a stable and adventurous future, only to arrive out west to a welcome of hard work abuse and disease.

Diamond Jimmy 4:16 Diamond Jimmy, a Creole card shark from Louisiana, headed west after shooting a white man overa game of cards. Violence finds him again when his gal, Dancin' Annie and Mustang Billy fail in love.

Dark Spanish Lady 4:13 Blue meets this beautiful African-American, Spanish and Cherokee mixed-race woman on a trip across the Rio Grande. Her dance enchants his heart, and his money.

Mule Skinner 8:18 By day the nameless Mule Skinner hauls freight, pulls stagecoaches, and drives the chuck wagon; but by night he dreams of life with his common law Kiowa wife, and prays that someday he will be able to avenge her tiagic murder. Black Seminoles 3.29

The Black Seminoles whose descendants were runaway slaves, were the only undefeated Native American Tribe in America and this is their anthem.

One More Notch 4:41 Upon being challenged by a hot-headed young kid, the aging gunslinger Black JoJo attempts to explain to him the fruitlessness of gunslinging as a way of life.

Dat Dere Preacher 4:05 The traveling preacher was a large part of life in remote settlements in the west. Country prayer meetings weren't just for worship, they were often a social highlight in the settlers' hard and dreary lives