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Bucolic scenes from the Old West, like horseback riding through rolling hills and settling in at a remote hacienda, continue ...
A T-shirt worn by Beyoncé during a Juneteenth performance on her “Cowboy Carter” tour has sparked a discussion over how ...
Step inside legendary cowboy hideouts across the West these historic spots hold tales of adventure, outlaws, and the spirit ...
Image Journalist Ashonti Ford presents her reporting to Glendale Community College students on a webinar. Image courtesy of ...
The rodeo features Black cowboys and cowgirls. Pickett was known to be one of the most renowned African American cowboys back in the 1800s. Pickett created a rodeo event called “Bull Dogging,” which ...
From Beyoncé to “Yellowstone,” the cowboy is everywhere. But why does this myth keep riding back into the American imagination?
The modern gold-and-rhinestone, big-money televised sport of rodeo owes just about everything—its traditions, its attitudes, its fashions—to rough-and-tumble Mexican cowboys of the early 1800s.
One of the musuem’s current exhibits is “ Capturing the Old West in Bronze,” which presents sculptures of characters from the early 1800s through the 1900s. Of course, being the Cowboy ...
“If you were a young Black girl in Texas in the 1800s, usually your father would train you on how to shoot,” Dr. Alicia Odewale told her UH African American studies class.
Following Reconstruction, Black cowboys played a massive role in cattle drives from Texas to railheads up north. Out of an estimated 35,000 cowboys from 1866 to 1897, nearly 9,000 were Black.
In honor of Black History Month, we're taking a deep dive into the legacy and impact of Black cowboys in Texas. From Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston and San Antonio - the lives of Texas' Black ...