Negro Cowboys

Name: Negro Cowboys
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ISBN: 9780803265608

ISBN-10: 0803265603

ISBN-13: 9780803265608

Edition: 1983 (Reprint)

Authors: Philip Durham, Everett L. Jones

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More than five thousand Negro cowboys joined the round-ups and served on the ranch crews in the cattleman era of the West. Lured by the open range, the chance for regular wages, and the opportunity to start new lives, they made vital contributions to the transformation of the West. They, their predecessors, and their successors rode on the long cattle drives, joined the cavalry, set up small businesses, fought on both sides of the law. Some of them became famous: Jim Beckwourth, the mountain man; Bill Pickett, king of the rodeo; Cherokee Bill, the most dangerous man in Indian Territory; and Nat Love, who styled himself "Deadwood Dick." They could hold their own with any creature, man or…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 10/1/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English