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African-American Cowboys…Wild Wild West!

  • February 6, 2022
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African American Cowboys…according to Bennie J. McRae, Jr., in his 1996 book Lest We Forget, “the traditional history of the American West almost totally ignores the role of black cowboys and other pioneers who traversed and settled in the West west of the Mississippi during the nineteenth century.” McRae said… out of about 35,000 cowboys who worked the ranches and rode the trails, between five and nine thousand were African Americans. However, the well-known Red River portrays not one black...