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The Black West: A Counter History of the Wild West airs Sunday, 8th October at 9pm on Sky HISTORY. On the face of it, the cowboys of the Old West made for unlikely folk heroes. Their lives were spent in harsh, unforgiving landscapes, where they were expected to carry out all kinds of resolutely unromantic tasks.
- Bass Reeves
- Bill Pickett
- Bob Lemmons
In 1875, Bass Reevesbecame a U.S. Marshal overseeing the vast expanse of Oklahoma Territory before it became a state. His job was a tough one. Of the 200 marshals killed in the line of duty, 130 met their untimely ends in Oklahoma. That didn’t deter the former slave from Arkansas. He was an expert marksman with the rifle and pistol, attributed to h...
Bill Pickett was a master ranch hand born in Texas in 1870. He invented the art of bulldogging, a method that subdues cattle by biting their lip. Pickettobserved bulldogs wrangling cattle to the ground by biting their lips until the cows sat still. Pickett turned bulldogging into a way of wrestling cattle that humans could utilize. He would ride up...
Bob Lemmons grew up a slave before moving to West Texas. This territory contained huge herds of wild mustangs, which were valuable commodities to ranchers settling the Wild West. His unique approach started with earning the trust of the herd. He did this by working alone rather than in a group, because a large group of men would spook the herd. Lem...
- William Delong
cowboy. Black cowboys, African American horsemen who wrangled cattle in the western United States in the late 1800s and beyond. Though they were almost entirely excluded from the mythology of the American cowboy, it is estimated that Black men accounted for nearly a quarter of all cattle workers in the nascent American West during the latter ...
Black cowboys. A Black cowboy from the early 1900s. Black cowboys in the American West accounted for up to an estimated 25% of cowboys "who went up the trail" from the 1860s to 1880s and substantial but unknown percentage [contradictory] in the rest of the ranching industry, [1][2] estimated to be at least 5,000 workers according to recent ...
Oct 23, 2021 · By 1861, Texas had over 180,000 black inhabitants and close to 4 million head of cattle. When the war ended four years later, ranching, with its dependence on cowboys, became the dominant industry. Marissa: While riding herd, black and white cowboys depended upon each other. They lived, ate, slept, and worked together.
- Elizabeth Garner Masarik
Jun 1, 2018 · The second part explores black cowboys' experiences in rodeos in Texas and Oklahoma and in music, film, and writing. The last part focuses on three people specifically—a lawman, a female postal carrier, and a performer. Approximately five thousand black cowboys worked throughout the West in the late nineteenth century.
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Feb 6, 2024 · Black_Cowboys in Texas. Circa 1913. Public domain image. Following the abolition of slavery, many Black men and women sought refuge in the promise of a brighter future in the West.
