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re: Get your tickets now!! Southwest black rodeo!! OBGT
Posted on 3/11/13 at 6:40 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 3/11/13 at 6:40 pm to Jim Rockford
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Bill Pickett, who invented the sport of bulldogging. Somewhere between 20-25% of cowboys in the old west were African American.
True.
They were treated differently than other blacks by cattle towns. They were allowed in the saloons and access to areas was exclusive to whites, in many cases. I've heard up to a third of cattle drive cowboys were black.
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Posted on 3/11/13 at 8:54 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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They were treated differently than other blacks by cattle towns. They were allowed in the saloons and access to areas was exclusive to whites, in many cases. I've heard up to a third of cattle drive cowboys were black.
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