Black Cowboys of the Old West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Cowboys of the Old West write by Tricia Martineau Wagner. This book was released on 2010-12-21. Black Cowboys of the Old West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses—men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story. When the Civil War ended, black men left the Old South in large numbers to seek a living in the Old West—industrious men resolved to carve out a life for themselves on the wild, roaming plains. Some had experience working cattle from their time as slaves; others simply sought a freedom they had never known before. The lucky travelled on horseback; the rest, by foot. Over dirt roads they went from Alabama and South Carolina to present-day Texas and California up north through Kansas to Montana. The Old West was a land of opportunity for these adventurous wranglers and future rodeo champions. A long overdue testament to the courage and skill of black cowboys, Black Cowboys of the Old West finally gives these courageous men their rightful place in history. Praise for an earlier book by the same author: “Whether you are a history enthusiast or a lover of adventure stories, African American Women of the Old Westpresents the reader with fascinating accounts of ten extraordinary, generally unrecognized, African Americans. Tricia Martineau Wagner takes these remarkable women from the footnotes of history and brings them to life.” —Ed Diaz, President of the Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation
Black Cowboys of the Old West
Black Cowboys of the Old West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Cowboys of the Old West write by Tricia Martineau Wagner. This book was released on 2011. Black Cowboys of the Old West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Profiles ten African American cowboys from nineteenth-century history detailing their lives and achievements in the American West.
Black Cowboys in the American West
Black Cowboys in the American West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Cowboys in the American West write by Bruce A. Glasrud. This book was released on 2016-09-28. Black Cowboys in the American West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds—some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas and Mexico. Most who joined the long trail drives were men, but black women also rode and worked on western ranches and farms. The first overview of the subject in more than fifty years, Black Cowboys in the American West surveys the life and work of these cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. Including both classic, previously published articles and exciting new research, this collection also features select accounts of twentieth-century rodeos, music, people, and films. Arranged in three sections—“Cowboys on the Range,” “Performing Cowboys,” and “Outriders of the Black Cowboys”—the thirteen chapters illuminate the great diversity of the black cowboy experience. Like all ranch hands and riders, African American cowboys lived hard, dangerous lives. But black drovers were expected to do the roughest, most dangerous work—and to do it without complaint. They faced discrimination out west, albeit less than in the South, which many had left in search of autonomy and freedom. As cowboys, they could escape the brutal violence visited on African Americans in many southern communities and northern cities. Black cowhands remain an integral part of life in the West, the descendants of African Americans who ventured west and helped settle and establish black communities. This long-overdue examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black cowboys ensures that they, and their many stories and experiences, will continue to be known and told.
Black Frontiers
Black Frontiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Frontiers write by Lillian Schlissel. This book was released on 2000-02. Black Frontiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Black Frontiers chronicles the life and times of black men and women who settled the West from 1865 to the early 1900s. In this striking book, you'll meet many of these brave individuals face-to-face, through rare vintage photographs and a fascinating account of their real-life history.
Black Cowboys Of Texas
Black Cowboys Of Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Cowboys Of Texas write by Sara R. Massey. This book was released on 2000. Black Cowboys Of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers twenty-four essays about African American men and women who worked in the Texas cattle industry from the slave days of the mid-19th century through the early 20th century.
