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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, estimated to be at least 5,000 individuals. [1] They were also part of the rest of the ranching industry in the West. [2] [3]
Golden Legacy was the umbrella title for a line of educational Black history comic books published by Fitzgerald Publishing Co. from 1966 to 1976. Golden Legacy published comic book biographies of such notable figures as Toussaint Louverture, Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Matthew Henson, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, Joseph Cinqué, Walter F. White ...
The Old West is a series of books about the history of the American Old West era, published by Time-Life Books from 1973 through 1980. Each book focused on a different topic specific for the era, such as cowboys, American Indians, gamblers and gunfighters.
In 2017, Venerable started his series of children’s books call “Grandpa I Just Wanna be a Cowboy” that introduces young readers to notable Black figures from the Wild West like Bass Reeves ...
While Black cowboys and cowgirls were essential to the Western frontier, they’ve rarely been depicted in classic Western films.
Broussard, Albert S. Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, Behind the Badge. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. online; Brown, Dee. The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968. Chung, Sue Fawn. In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West.
Jim and Gloria Austin opened the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum in 2001 to educate the community about the importance of the diverse history of Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous cowboys.
Other major projects include photography book The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America (2024), The Long Ride Home: The Black Cowboy Experience in America, a nationwide project on Black cowboys, and the book We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans (2004), a collaboration with writer Yvonne Latty.