african american cowboys

Name: Why the first US cowboys were black
Uploaded: 2020-10-29T14:36:52-04:00
Description: Historians estimate that one in four cowboys were African American, though you’d never guess because the conventional Hollywood image of a cowboy is a white man. Black cowboys have been written out of history, along with the original cattle-raising Native Americans and Mexican vaqueros who taught them. So what are the real origins of cowboy...

Why the first US cowboys were black
African-American Cowboy: The Forgotten Man of the West" Documentary about Black Cowboys