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Black cowboys in the American West : on the range, on the stage, behind the badge / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles ; foreword by Albert S. Broussard.
- Title
- Black cowboys in the American West : on the range, on the stage, behind the badge / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles ; foreword by Albert S. Broussard.
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- xi, 248 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This book surveys the life and work of black cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. It includes previously published articles and new research, this collection also features select accounts of twentieth-century rodeos, music, people, and films. Arranged in three sections—“Cowboys on the Range,” “Performing Cowboys,” and “Outriders of the Black Cowboys”—the thirteen chapters illuminate the great diversity of the black cowboy experience.--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: "don't leave out the cowboys!" / Bruce A. Glasrud -- Cowboys on the range -- Before emancipation: Black cowboys and the livestock industry / Deborah M. Liles -- Mathew "Bones" Hooks: a pioneer of honor / Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm -- "Havin' a good time": women cowhands and Johana July, a Black Seminole vaquera -- Cecilia Gutierrez Venable -- Black cowboy: Daniel Webster "John" Wallace / Douglas Hales -- Nat Love, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick: a wild ride / Michael N. Searles -- Performing cowboys -- Shadow riders of the subterranean circuit: a descriptive account of Black rodeo in the Texas Gulf Coast region / Demetrius W. Pearson -- Oklahoma's African American rodeo performers / Roger D. Hardaway -- The bronze buckaroo rides again: Herb Jeffries is still keepin' on / Mary A. Dempsey -- Musical traditions of twentieth-century African American cowboys / Alan Govenar -- Outriders of the Black cowboys -- Mary Fields's road to freedom / Miantae Metcalf McConnell -- "No less a man": Blacks in cow town Dodge City, 1876-1886 / C. Robert Haywood -- Charley Willis: a singing cowboy / Jim Chilcote -- Bass Reeves: a legendary lawman of the western frontier / Art T. Burton -- Concluding overview: in search of the Black cowboy / Michael N. Searles.
- ISBN
- 9780806154060
- 0806154063
- LCCN
- ^^2016007239
- OCLC
- 939911301
- SCSB-11503954
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- Harvard Library