a cowboy's life was a hard one, but living freely on America's western frontier nevertheless appealed to thousands of men. These photos were taken across the American West between the late 1800s ...

From DFW to Houston and San Antonio - the lives of Texas' Black cowboys tell a story of skill, grit and freedom.

(Karen Almond) Mexican-American playwright Karen Zacarías estimates that half of Old West cowboys after the Civil War were Black or Hispanic. Yet their presence has been largely unaccounted for ...

Historians estimated that during the 1800s, one in four cowboys were Black ... He was the first African American to attend college on a rodeo scholarship. In 1971, he created the Cowboys of ...