ABSTRACT
Taylor Gordon, Montana’s best known African American participant in the Harlem Renaissance, wrote in his autobiography, Born to Be, that race had never been the big “ghost” in his life because he had been “laid on top of the Rocky Mountains, hatched out by the Broiling Sun, a suckling of Honey Bluebacks and educated by the Grizzly Bear, with all the beauty and fresh air Nature can provide for her children.”
