African-American Cowboy: The Forgotten Man of the West" Documentary about Black Cowboys
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- African-American Cowboy: The Forgotten Man of the West.
This is a short documentary about African-American rodeo cowboys in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. We interviewed many black cowboys who were active in the rodeo during and after segregation in the South (Texas). Rodeos in the South were segregated until 1970s, and the cowboys in the documentary share their personal experiences about this time in history. This documentary was filmed in Texas.
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The Lone Ranger was based on black lawman Bass Reeves.
Sammie Williams *Thanks for putting Bass Reeves history out there.
@@Crudeoil794 Ditto on that thanks!
I sure hope my 4th grade teacher is still alive to see this. She called me a liar, and tried to get me suspended from school when I mentioned that my uncles in Texas, were cowboys! Obviously teachers in this Country haven't gotten much better in 50 years!!
the phrase cowboy was originally a slur . referring to black cattlemen
@@sumnerferris3614 nah cowboy is a cool word
@@meaningoflife7199
The keyword is WAS...please re-read the statement.
@@sumnerferris3614 no, no it wasn't. Cowboy was a vaquero. It came from spanish word.
vaca is cow, poreso se llaman vaqueros porque agarraban las vacas! y de ayi se formo la palabra cowboy.
Love it!
The first cowboy that was interviewed in this video (Floyd Frank) is my great-uncle. Sadly he passed away yesterday (01/05/2021) at 103 years old.
Rest in Heaven, uncle Floyd.
Robert, please accept my sincere condolences! He was a brave and wonderful man, and I truly enjoyed meeting and interviewing him. 103 years old, wow! What an incredible life. RIP Mr. Frank!
Sorry to hear about your loss. He sounds like he was a great man.
Wow! 103 years old.
RIP.
Sincerest Condolences.
It is important to tell, share, and spread Black History. Too much intentionally hidden and misrepresented.
I knew Black cowboys existed (not many) through the oral tradition of the Legends.
So sorry for your loss.............May God bless you and your family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Born and raised in Baltimore, I've always had a deep appreciation for cowboy movies and outdoor life. My father taught me the truth about history, so I've always enjoyed enlightening people about who cowboys really were. Kids from metropolitan cities need first hand experiences with these historians and professional cowboys for enrichment and motivation.
Change your alias that Doja cat is not a good representation of blacks
Truth
In fact, crime Minds diminish when they travel and meet other people with differing lifestyle but look like them.
Another secret swept under the rug by America. So proud of these people!
Afrostraightener, PLEASE. 1390 is real, are you proud of THAT?
Facts!!
@@laurencebarnes9298 Ignorance be bliss. 😂
@@laurencebarnes9298 "I have no idea what you're talking about" in your original post. So I just took a stab at it.
@@laurencebarnes9298 Sure isn't. It's also overrated (especially in text) not to mention confused with "humor" by WAY too many people.
This is history we need to know! Thank you for this documentary!
are cowboys part of AA culture?
I found this after watching 1883 (Yellowstone). There's a black cowboy on the show and it made me start thinking that most likely there were black cowboys and I thought it would be interesting to look into. Wouldn't it be cool if there could be a Yellowstone type show with black cowboys showing their take on things from back then. Thanks for the info. and documentary.
Wow, good on ya for being curious. There's books about lawmen and pioneers who were black. Like the woman who founded the pony express.
Ppl don't want you to no.....
There are probably still Black Rodeos, and the black cowboys records were substantially better, which is another reason they have always been banned from the white rodeos today, and another reason I never attend them, no matter how many times they come to my city!!
There a book i read in college called the black the red and the deadly that turned me on to the fact in old west 1out 3 cowboys were black,some of them escaped slavery but some played a part in myan civilization theres very old statues of obvious black men along with the myan people ,the power that be changed history some blacks are native to America
@@sonjawashington573 I’m Texas we still have black rodeos
I'm a 60 year old black man and I remember about 30 years ago I went to a black rodeo in Sacramento California and I thought what I was seeing was something that wasn't really normal and to an extent I was right but now it watching this I realize it was more normal than I thought. I asked a question what else don't we know about black history?
I think these cowboys might be unknown or forgotten up north, or in urban areas, however not here in Texas and the South
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Well your a white modern.
They never speak up when TV land Bananza had only white cowboys effective writing us outta history.
@@AirborneTejano from the south, Louisiana to be exact, but have never forgotten and never will. I was riding horses before I learned to walk 😂 but now I reside in the great white North not because of the snow either 😂 but because of the money. Someday, I'll return, but not to work for someone else.
Brandon Sparkman you reckon boyo?
Did your grandmother tell you stories about the klan burning your family out?
If so where?
What was your family’s name?
Mine is Smith in Kaufman and Terrell counties.
You can find my family in the online history there.
You have no skin in the game to be commenting on anything.
My picture is me and that is my name, where’s yours?
You’re nothing here, just someone else judging a stranger by the color of his eyes, and the tone of his skin.
@@AirborneTejano nice to meet you Tex. I thought Texans had better manners and what ever happened to southern hospitality? I not shocked at all of how people get all up in arms about someone from another nationality speak of the many crimes against humanity. Note I'm not using race because race doesn't exist 😂 never has. Furthermore, not all people who call themselves white are Klan affiliated only the dumb ones are because if anyone with common sense know that Black people and Hispanics fought for the Confederate flag as well. 😌
Wow...at 1:48 min he is telling the truth. On a visit to the gas station on a trip to Miami saw this 6'4 lumber jack dressed dark skinned black one in boots, jeans and all. This 10 year old kid walked up to him and asked in awe are you a real cowboy. He was so thrilled to receive the answer of yes...heavy country accent and all..LOLOL.
I very much felt touched by the prayer at the end and felt very special watching this video.....the Lord was with these men the whole time.
SALUTE TO ALL WHO WERE A PART OF THIS HISTORY👏👏👏👏👏👏
I'm an American History teacher and went down a rabbit hole doing some research for a lesson. I'm excited to learn more about all of this.
Cowboys come from Chihuahua and many states of the north of Mexico. Besides, many southern states of the current US were part of Mexico. We gave to the US something of our diverse culture.
@@joseamb9105 nobody is saying yall didnt lol this about black cowboys
NEVER forgotten by those of us raised on cattle ranches and farms that worked the bovines on horseback and foot.....!
Fascinating history..brought here in 2021 after watching Concrete Cowboys on Netflix
Good stories. Historical Fact: [Both black folks and white southerners learned to cowboy from the Mexicans in Texas both before and after the Civil War.]
We just didn't get to see it in the movies thanks to racist Hollywood power brokers.
I happen to come from a cowboy family in northern Mexico that has been cowboying for more than 12 generations in a span of over 300 years and the idea of black cowboys was even unknown to us in our neck of the woods.
And in the words of my uncle spoken during a cattle drive: "I don't see how they glorify this (cowboying) in the movies. This is a cheap, dirty, and nasty business .... and it falls upon us to do it."
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You're right about that, and my ancestors were forced to break the wild horses that the white men were afraid of! They learned a lot about horse handling from my Native American Ancestors as well, and they don't show that in the movies either!!
And the Mexican learned from the original, the Spaniards
@@raulvaldes270 aaah .... NO. Not as we know it. Never in their history did Spaniards rope and work cattle as we know it today. Cowboying with ropes/riatas/lassos, as well as their various uses, were developed in Mexico by the indigenous people and settlers who had to find new ways of doing things. This is why you didn't see other places like Argentina, Cuba, Panama, and other Spanish colonies, develop this type of work.
@@travelin.trucker oh really? So how the Spaniards used to herd cattle in Spanish? By remote control? And you saying that is like saying that baseball was created in the 50s or 60s went the helmet and 5 fingers glove was introduced, please
My love of everything cowboy is based in large part on their character. Thank you for showing me / us more to history than I knew. Your character has influenced me even further. Thank you gentlemen.
Many people never knew that "The LONE RANGER" was based on Bass Reeve who was deputized by the Hanging judge. He also had an Indian friend that was like a brother to him!
are cowboys part of AA culture?
@@maybe_3374yes
We found this because we're engrossed in Yellowstone (Kevin Costner) and curious about rodeos and cowboys. As a northern city dweller, I'm not sure I'll ever make it to a rodeo, but what an articulate and refined group of gentlemen in smart shirts and hats. And yeah, let's get racism gone already.
Very proud of these cowboys! My family is native american Indian and we come from a cowboy heritage. I think its pretty neat how we share similarities overcoming hardships in our pasts. Living the western lifestyle is not for the weak and for the ones who can do it, i give them mad respect! Thanks for sharing video!
jr scott g
We are the same... Indigenous...They mixed us with white and African just like ur family
@ jr Scott..we are from the 12 tribes of Israel that’s y we have a lot of similarities blacks & native Americans come from tribes
Nope. You learned it from us the spanish. Im from northern mexico of spanish cowboy descent. We taught you everything you know
@@marlboroman2393 yes sir the Spanish explorers and military had a lot to do with introduction of the horses to the Americas.
When tribes/indigenous peoples to the Americas first saw horses we were very fascinated! My own tribe up here in oregon initially thought they were giant dogs, and named them so. That's what I was referring to when I said my people have had horses in our lives ever since explorers and conquerors and settlers begin loving into the northwest of the United states. We still have stories of fighting horseback and u.s. military couldn't defeat us so they enlisted help of our enemy tribes that helped them fight us.
Anyhow I have high respect for vaqueros and Spanish influence. I always read/watch stories of their history! Up her we have the Pendleton round up where they showcase history of black/white/Indian ride off and I feel they should kncldie spanish/Mexican rider to show their skills!!
These days I use horses on my cattle ranch. Occasionally we will use them for Indian events like parades and maybe to hunt (with guns, not bows and arrows hahaha). Long ago we'd use them for rodeos where I'd rope in team roping/calf roping/steer wrestling. Then when I was a teen I'd ride bulls and bare backs. I've broke a lot of horses and roped a few wild ones off the range!
Thanks for your comment and have good evening!
This is an awesome piece of history. My grandfather and grand uncle were both cowboys, working ranches and bronc busting in the early 1900s.
Here in the Caribbean, some buffalo soldiers came to Trinidad to live.
10th Cavalry Regiment of the US Army 🔥🔥💪🏿
Thank you very much for making this documentary available to the public. We have had some legendary working ranch black cowboys in the Texas Panhandle, some of them formerly was called buffalo soldiers. Alas, they are all gone and few stories were recorded in print and photos for the historical record. I have been hunting for some old timers who can tell second-hand and first-hand stories of their own.
So proud of the black history of these great men, and other's black men and women
Who are not just equal but even better then many white people. God bless all of you who sacrificed and waited for your time in History for your people to get what they truly deserve 🙏🌟❤️
I am a Polish American, and my ex husband is Puerto Rican, my son has. Child with a African American woman.
My granddaughter is beautiful.
I always felt every race, every religion should be treaded equally.
I am proud of the African America's and Love their music, food, everything they
Contribute to this country.
I will show this to my granddaughter, I want her to know of all the Hero's that make up her genealogy genealogy, and be proud of each one. And yes Black lives matter 🙏💕🌟
It’s cool that Black, White, Native American, Spanish, and Mexican people all have shared this same cowboy lifestyle overtime. Don’t know if I’m forgetting any other groups of people as well but it’s cool when diverse groups of people share similar history such as this. And I’ll admit I’m a white kid from North Idaho that’s never been near a rodeo even though we have a little bit of this culture up here but I have incredible respect for anyone that lived out this grueling, gritty, and tough but fulfilling lifestyle. After learning all this I’m gonna be even more pissed off at the fake cowboys I see that listen to shitty modern country music and act hard but that ain’t actually about this lifestyle 😂 Not to mention these people I’m referring to probably have no idea how diverse cowboy culture actually is
African-American cowboys were never really forgotten, at least not in Texas. I saw them here in person as a kid in the 70s, portrayed in movies by actors Sidney Poitier, Woody Strode, Jim Brown, etc. and authors have written about Black cowboys in books for the last 110 + years. I think there is more of a regional, generational or cultural amnesia of these hard-working men and women, which needs to be overcome. They have been under-represented and respectfully depicted in history, literature, paintings, photography, early movies and especially TV shows. They have not been completely hidden as some people would state and imply as we're still talking and reading about them now. ua-cam.com/video/awRCHkDECIE/v-deo.html
We have to keep this LEGENDARY HISTORY ALIVE I love Our Beautiful Black History 😍💞
It's the spirit of Jealousy that destroys a family, nation, also a kingdom Universally and other tribes history
Mexican Vaqueros from California taught white dudes the cowboy life....I guess it trickled down to Black men Also.....The king of Hawaii hired Mexican Vaqueros from California back in the 1830s to teach them to round up and tend to the wild herds of cattle in Hawaii....They all stayed in Hawaii and their descendants are the Paniolos of
today....I am glad my People had a large part in creating this lifestyle.
@@rubengonzalez750
so its not an american culture, neither black nor Anglo-Saxon white men
why people can't understand that
its like saying Chinese food is also american food because they learned how to cook it, doesn't make any sense.
@@19ars92 Rodeo Spanish word for surrounding..... Corral Spanish word for pen.... Lasso Spanish word for to rope....Buckaroo Anglicized word for Vaquero.....Ranch Anglicized word for Rancho..... pretty much all cowboy culture and slang comes from what Vaqueros taught white dudes.... California and Texas had huge cattle Ranchos when white dudes came they new nothing about Vaquero/cowboy culture they learned from us then you learned from them.....read about it....attend a Mexican charreada (Rodeo) If you get a chance......Old school way of Cowboying......Many in California......Texas...New Mexico and Arizona.
I love the Frank Family’s history.....wow what an amazing history and family legacy!!!
Tuskegee airmen, "Red tails", ROCKED.
@Jessica Arnoult Were you BORN ignorant, or did you study hard at it? If you're in the army YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW ORDERS, otherwise, you can be sent to MILITARY PRISON, or sent before a FIRING SQUAD. I am part Indian, part Mexican and part Anglo. Mexicanos used to deny that they are also Native American (Indios), and used to kill Indians because the Spaniards taught them to be racist against their own roots. Why don't you STUDY history before you venture an opinion, hija?
What a proud history we have. I truly, truly, love my people, we are second to no one (Deuteronomy 7:6---Amos 3:2 ---1 Peter 2:9 KJV).
ALL PRAISES UNTO THE MOST HIGH GOD & AMEN
YOU CAN'T STOP AWESOMENESS AND THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL TOO!!!
This is so great my family is a family of black cowboys and girls . Ynfortunately I live in New York so I never got to be a part of rodeos but I did get to see my great uncles when I was little do it
Yes from Brownsville, Clinton, Pearl, Richland n Jackson Mississippi. We love our Beautiful Black Men n Women who keep the Heritage going. I rode n taught my children as well. We have our horses right. Love u guys
Thank you for this documentary..watching from the Caribbean🇧🇧
Hello 👋 🇺🇸
Bless you handsome kings and GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
Thank you for this video. The information is sad but important. America needs more Cowboys, men, and women of every color who are willing to work hard and overcome obstacles.
I would love to involve these forgotten Cowboys in with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, and really make the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo truly the "world's largest rodeo!"
Nice to see a different aspect on African American history instead of the usual stuff. I have read about blacks going west.
Thanks to all of You Brothers for sharing more information regarding Black Cowboys. I just found out about the Fake Lone Ranger actully was Bass Reaves.
Blacks were some of the first cowboys, keep up the good work guys. May God bless you all. Mr. Tony Stevens. Louisiana Cowboy.
No they were not. Lol
The first Cowboy and cowboy hat descended from Chihuahua , Mexico. Whites copied them then blacks. Blacks don’t even live that lifestyle, they just play dress up. Lol
Pages like this need to be reported for false information.
@@spacecat7125you are definitely the most laughable idiot .. walking on two legs .. bootlicker
Yes spainards brought horses and cattle to America and were the first cowboys also the American Indian were cowboys but in spanish were called vaqueros. Spainards brought horses in 1492 and blacks learned after slavery ended in 1860s so in actually blacks were the last to know of horses.
This piece of black cowboy history 🏰, is very important for us to appreciate, how far we can't as a people.This documentary was great 🐂 cowboys.
Please don't get excited Mexican cowboys have been riding horses since 1492.
We are an amazing and blessed people, thank you Yah
Halayasarasala. Its amazing where so masterful at it! You can tell where the king tribe Yahavada. The lion the king
are cowboys part of AA culture?
Mexicans have been riding since 1492 when Christopher Columbus brought horses and cattle to America. Mexicans taught white men to ride and white men taught blacks. Whites learned how to ride in the 1800s
That prayer brought tears to my heart & eyes!
I want to make movies set in the Wild West following black people, Mexicans and natives
Great documentary about black cowboys.
The first cowboys I saw were my Grandfather and uncle's saw whites dressed like cowboys as a young child it wasn't until I was a teenager that I actually saw whites working cattle and roping. Cowboy life for us wasn't the gear and clothes it was the job we did.
The first cowboys were us white. Hispanic white though of spanish origin not the gringos
@@marlboroman2393 Oh yeah the spainish brought the first cattle to the Americas for sure.
Same here my family rode horses down in the country outside of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
@@marlboroman2393 The moors taught you and made stirrups and sandles,cowboy was a American word for blacks they like to call us boy,but we turn it round and made it cool.
@Zii You might be
Thanks for this wonderful often overlooked history ❤️
Yes. Thank you LORD for such a rich Black History and beyond. Thank you to all the Black cowboys and cow girls. Keep up the good work.In Jesus Christ name. Amen…
I wish I could like this video more than once, growing up as a black kid in the Dakotas I thought I was alone. Very far from it I see now. Thank you!
How was that
65 years old now, show all of them in action in the 60's, and 70's. in Baileys Prairie, Kendleton, old Diamond L Ranch in Houston, Dickerson, and Egypt. Skeet was my favorite in the bull riding. Got to go to all them because my uncle Buster Jackson was the pickup man for the riders. This brought back a lot of memories.
They still inspire a lot of us. 1:3 black or Hispanic in those days, Bill Pickett only creator of a rodeo event. Its always been our heritage
"Rodeo" is a Spanish word, and it has existed before any English speaker moved into spaniard territory.
Taurine culture is Spanish European they introduced cattle to the American continent, on new Spain, and modified in Mexico, no white anglosaxon or black men created non of that but copied from Texas and Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Chihuahua, nuevo Mexico etc.
I respect African Americans and their contributions to humanity but get your history right.
Sure is a beautiful documentary, very special to be a "Tx. Black Rancher's Granddaughter" for many years, he and Grandma raised their family of 9 off the land and hunting.... and my aunts and uncles always brought the next generation home for holidays! I still remember seeing all 5 uncles ride up with their "Deady" my Grandpa...
I can still recall those wonderful healthy smells of a horse, cow, pig, chickens even kittens under the porch.... leather saddles, and sounds of boots walking cross hardwood floors while I was waiting for an opportunity to wear a brow sweat stained hat to see myself in Grandmas mirror. Grateful to have " Tx. Cowgirl Roots".... Amen
Excellent documentary. Would you allow our museum, Chisholm Trail Heritage Center, in Duncan OK to show this during our summer program? Our program is "Black Cowboys: Tall Tale or Top Hand." Thank you for your consideration.
So much history and legacy!!!! I love it!!!!
are cowboys part of AA culture?
@@maybe_3374 Indigenous black culture and yes.
@@J3ferguson why? because first cowboys were black?
I must share this on my website. 💞
I'm white and despite what most movies showed us, I always assumed there were people of all backgrounds and cultures back then as it is now.......
Steven Marzullo where
No youre a wannebe white, most likely a mixed mutt
No importa europe/asia is your home land go back
@@Leejahstar im not from murica you poor hybrid. Lmfao
Mongoloid
An excellent documentary. Thank you for making it and hosting it on youtube, where folks can see it.
Thank you very much, Catherine!
Great Documentary!
I remember seeing my grandpa break a horse in Bay City, Texas. We had horses growing up. Thank you Lord!
I have always felt like the odd one out even after 15 years in the horse world, but seeing things like this reminds me that horses are indeed in my blood.
That prayer touched me. Precious! By God's grace these men have overcome segregation and perfected their craft.
I'm almost 50 and white. Even though tv showed white cowboys, I knew there were black cowboys it just wasn't shown. To me it's just logical. I think every nationality ethnic group had a cowboy one time or another.
Extremely Outstanding fantastic 👏🏼 👌🏾 🙌🏾 👍🏾 😀 So good to see daddy frank still keeping it going on.💯💯💯👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👈🏾
This UA-cam document is beyond phenomenal! All students and adults (of all ethnic groups) should see this video, especially young blacks who are continually being denied the right to understand the historical contributions that African American
sacrificially have given, against all odds to our country.
I’m in the sixties club and never saw a black cowboy until I moved to Houston. I love it!
I'm in my 60s, I live in Southern California and I'm the only black cowboy Ive seen. Outside of Texas you dont see many of us.
Sam Gowdy I visited a ranch somewhere around Hollywood a couple of months ago. My son and his family lives in Duarte CA. I want to take my grandson to a ranch to ride. We need to allow them to enjoy the experience.
@@staceycollins5325 This is so true. I love riding, its the only time I feel free from this crazy confused world.
Thanks for making it all one file! Great documentary.
Texas Ag teacher here! I am teaching my students this month about African American Cowboys and the African American Ag innovators! I am showing this documentary to my class and I am excited for my students to learn about the history of the cowboy and the amazing agriculture inventions that came from African Americans!
Thank you for letting us know, Erika! We hope your students enjoy it!
Thanks for this video of our black cowboy.
They steals our AFRICANS Ancestors cowboy lifestyle and turn it into pinkish orangey skin colour cowboys and turned into movies
AFRICANS are the ones who knew how to manage horses in AFRICA Continent.
Now I know who is the real cowboys
Respect to our AFRICANS Ancestors cowboys
Amen. What a wonderful video. I love the prayer for thanksgiving, for strength just to do and to do their job with humility and honor.
what a interesting history 😊
I loved working a cowboy ranch I was invited in by lane frost and Shane Braxton and I happy being a Christian cowboy and a member of the PBR
Sincerely Hawken Isheli Rifle
Boomier Rifle
Mayberry
I really enjoyed this, rewatching with my grandson, thank you
Awsome knowledge for a guy up north in canada great black history
I had the honor of meeting and spending some time with communities of Black cowboys and cowgirls living the life from Muskogee to Okmulgee to McCallister(?). Wonderful people ❤ in the early 90s. Thank you so Much 🎉
This is a great video. Thanks for posting 😊
Excellent. Wish I had known this when I was young. There are so many Blacks that had to suffer indignities to overcome. The youth of today take everything for granted. Now we have Whitfield and Soloman on the PRCA. Need more.
Like Mr.Martin Luther King said let freedom ring we've come to far to turn back were people say that you can't in your heart and mind you can just believe.
Love this. More stories of black Joy please!
I love this video. Great history people.
We are blessed people no matter what the enemy say.
Please do a movie on this i pray someone sees this
Concrete Cowboy is an excellent movie to watch
She’s a Blake cowgirl from Alabama know we have 3 boys all in jr rodeo I love you my family...
U guys looks so Fantastic in ur cowboy boots, hats...I use to wonder about black cowboys...Now I have learned a lot...I enjoyed reading about Bill Puckett, his picture is on the wall in Texas long horn restaurant..I saw the picture and looked him up...Extremely Outstanding 💯💯💯👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Thanks for sharing this video.
This is awesome! God Bless You All!
ALL GREAT MEN of CHARACTER!!!! "ALL AMERICAN" PROFOUND STATEMENT: MEN that have INTEGRITY and INTELLECT!!!
Amen to this documentary. What I always thought. Very, very , very interesting. I know they had a lot of swag riding them horses. Thanks for sharing this valuable information.
This is perfect, especially for the black cowboys of today!
Thank y'all so much for this god bless❤
I love you Black Cowboys!!😊👍i pray you get the help you need to keep your stables open...May your cup runneth over!
A enlightened history
THANKS FOR THE HIS STORY...
Amen for the real STORY!!!!!!!!
Thank you all for your heart to trail blaze for us 👑
I'm here because I have a history assignment but this video just gave more knowledge than I can ever ask for I too was taught and believed white men where the creators of the "cowboy" persona. my family being hispanic they love rodeos and horses they always go to the shows its amazing to now understand how all this falls into. Im just amazed and grateful to understand this history especially to know it was mostly African Americans, Mexican Americans and Native Americans who were cowboys. Im learning the History of Nat Love a legendary cowboy after the Reconstruction Era. thanks !!
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Check out Dr. Nelson's website for the history about the Afro-Frontier.
nope, its Spanish culture modified in Mexico and copied by white Anglo-Americans later copied by African Americans, in that order, it literally has nothing to do with american culture because it wasn't born in the USA.
Wow I'm so glad that I got to hear what I know... Yes we we'er Cowboys...
were* Yankee education?
As a Brown Man I never knew some of this very interesting history of my people.I feel we have been lied to some much as a child we never seen brown cowboys.but as I began to search it is so sad how they hide our accomplishment .thank you for this life Savings vedio .
The mexican and spanish tought this to everyone.
@kahlildopeboi dopeboimagic Oh yes we did. The hat, boots, western saddle, chaps, lasso techniques are from The Mexican Vaquero. The cowboy did not exist until late 1850 when they got the west and encounter the Vaquero. Even all the words are Spanish like Rodeo, Lasso, Lariat etc. We taught them how to ranch how to move cattle open range. All this non existing until you got to Mexican territories.
@@eliorocha10 There weren't horses native to the North America until Europeans brought them over
@@Chxn10 Yes, that is true. I am not talking about cattle herding. Herding has existed for hundredths of years in every region of the planet. I am talking about the specific and unique way of cattle herding cowboys do. If you look at every culture, every one has its own unique way of doing things. Cattle herding in North America was an import from the Spanish conquistadors when they brought horses and cattle. But that Spanish way of herding was changed and developed into a different culture and a different way or herding. The way we do it know in the "western culture" comes from the Mestizo (Mexican). All these techniques and the tools and attires come from the Mexican Vaqueros and It is in history books. You don't have to believe me. Just do your own research. Even the word "Cowboy" is a direct translation to English from the Spanish word "Vaquero"
My grandpa was a cowboy back in texas R.I.P. Grady Mathis
Awesome! Love It!
Black cowboys were the first cowboys hundreds of years before Texas ever spoke a word of english and thats becouse the spaniards taught them hot to be a cowboy. Spaniards knew in Africa they new how to heard animals really good and thats why they chose them to cowboy along side of the Spaniards
This is still not fairly documented. Just look up "cowboy" on wikipedia. The page is locked too, for some reason.
Wonderful!