In 2013 Tarver set out to document black cowboy culture, in part as a tribute to his grandfather, a cowboy in Oklahoma in the ...

As Jerald Underwood, a historian of the American West, wrote in the 2001 book Vaqueros ... it's estimated that as many as one in four American cowboys was Black. Perhaps the most prominent ...

Black cowboys and cowgirls are very much a part of ... educates audiences about African American contributors in the Old West. This organization is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the ...

Being a cowboy was a difficult, dangerous, and badly-paid job, one that men took because they had few other options. According to historian William Loren Katz, author of The Black West ...

Cowboy Carter Chronicle explores a groundbreaking course at the University of Houston that unravels the rich tapestry of Black contributions to the American West, inspired by Beyoncé's "Cowboy ...