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Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-5406-0. Katz, William Loren; Taylor, Quintard (2019). The Black West: a documentary and pictorial history of the African American role in the westward expansion of the United States. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing.
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.
Now in its 33rd year, the Bill Pickett Rodeo brings together the best black cowboys and cowgirls out there as well as rekindling the history and contributions African-Americans have made to the rodeo.
Black cowboys in the American West accounted for up to 25 percent of workers in the range-cattle industry from the 1860s to 1880s, estimated to be between 6,000 and 9,000 workers. [29] [30] Typically former slaves or children of former slaves, many black men had skills in cattle handling and headed West at the end of the Civil War. [31]
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
Documenting cowboys and rodeos. After that experience, McClellan found himself drawn to the Black rodeo. He returned several times to that first Black rodeo, and before he knew it, he was tracking ...
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. The statue is installed in the Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District. [18] [19] [20]
While Black cowboys and cowgirls were essential to the Western frontier, they’ve rarely been depicted in classic Western films.