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Nat Love (1854–1921), an African-American cowboy and former slave. After the Reconstruction of the South after the American Civil War, freed slaves were still denied land ownership and other rights in many states, and about 20,000 Exodusters headed west to Kansas between 1879 and 1884, with smaller migrations to other Western states.
The following list of cowboys and cowgirls from the frontier era of the American Old West (circa 1830 to 1910) was compiled to show examples of the cowboy and cowgirl genre. Cattlemen, ranchers, and cowboys
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
The touring rodeo celebrates Black cowboys. [ 17 ] In 1987, a statue of Pickett performing his signature "bulldogging" maneuver, made by artist Lisa Perry, was presented to the city of Fort Worth, Texas by the North Fort Worth Historical Society.
Name Portrait Life Years active Comments Ref. John Hicks Adams: No image available: 1830–1878 1864–1878 Sheriff, Santa Clara County, California, Deputy U.S. Marshal, Arizona Territory
He was the first African American cowboy to win a world championship in professional rodeo in 1982 and was inducted into the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum’s Hall of Fame in 2003.
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In recent years, the interest in Black cowboy culture has grown because of music projects such as Lil Nas X’s 2018 hit song, “Old Town Road,” and Beyonce’s country-themed “Cowboy Carter ...