blackhistoryalbum: THE BLACK WEST | 1880s One in four of America’s cowboys were African-Americ
blackhistoryalbum: THE BLACK WEST | 1880s One in four of America’s cowboys were African-American. An even greater percentage were of Mexican extraction. Many of the slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries were familiar with cattle herding from their homelands of West Africa. Although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white men like Roy Rogers and Billy the Kid, William “Bill” Pickett, Stagecoach Mary, Nat Love and Bass Reeves were among themost well known African Americans counterparts. Black History Album: The Way We Were. 100 Years of African American Vintage Photography from the end of slavery in the 1860′s to the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and beyond. Pinterest | Tumblr | Twitter | Facebook. -- source link