Black cowboys and early cattle drives : on the trails from Texas to Montana / Nancy Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Nancy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American cowboys--Goodnight-Loving Trail--History.

African American cowboys.

African American cowboys--West (U.S.)--History.

Goodnight-Loving Trail--History.

Goodnight-Loving Trail.

West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890.

West (U.S.).

United States--Goodnight-Loving Trail.

West United States.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

158 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2023.

Summary:

"After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn't want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a new life. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove two thousand longhorns across southern Texas blazing a trail to Bosque Redondo in New Mexico. In 1866, the new Goodnight-Loving Trail was crowded with cattle headed for a government market. By the 1870s, twenty-five percent of the over thirty-five thousand cowboys in the West were black. They were part of trail crews that drove more than twenty-seven million cattle on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, Western Trail, Chisholm Trail and Shawnee Trail. They were paid equally, and their skill and ability brought them earned respect and prestige. Author Nancy Williams recounts their lasting legacy." -- Publisher description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158).

ISBN:

9781467153645

1467153648

OCLC:

1371749156

Publisher Number:

99994648829