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Black cowboys in the American West : on the range, on the stage, behind the badge / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles ; foreword by Albert S. Broussard.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American cowboys--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- African American cowboys.
- African American cowboys--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Cowboys--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Cowboys.
- Cowboys--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- History.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 248 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- 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 illuminates the great diversity of the black cowboy experience. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "don't leave out the cowboys!" / Bruce A. Glasrud
- Cowboys on the range
- Before emancipation: Black cowboys and the livestock industry / Deborah M. Liles
- Mathew "Bones" Hooks: a pioneer of honor / Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm
- "Havin' a good time": women cowhands and Johana July, a Black Seminole vaquera
- Cecilia Gutierrez Venable
- Black cowboy: Daniel Webster "John" Wallace / Douglas Hales
- Nat Love, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick: a wild ride / Michael N. Searles
- Performing cowboys
- Shadow riders of the subterranean circuit: a descriptive account of Black rodeo in the Texas Gulf Coast region / Demetrius W. Pearson
- Oklahoma's African American rodeo performers / Roger D. Hardaway
- The bronze buckaroo rides again: Herb Jeffries is still keepin' on / Mary A. Dempsey
- Musical traditions of twentieth-century African American cowboys / Alan Govenar
- Outriders of the Black cowboys
- Mary Fields's road to freedom / Miantae Metcalf McConnell
- "No less a man": Blacks in cow town Dodge City, 1876-1886 / C. Robert Haywood
- Charley Willis: a singing cowboy / Jim Chilcote
- Bass Reeves: a legendary lawman of the western frontier / Art T. Burton
- Concluding overview: in search of the Black cowboy / Michael N. Searles.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780806154060
- 0806154063
- OCLC:
- 939911301
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