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      ‘A history that’s been suppressed’: the Black cowboy story is 200 years old

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 May, 2024

    Historians estimate a quarter of settlers of the US west were Black, moving cattle on horseback, settling towns and keeping the peace

    When Larry Callies went to the movies as a boy in Rosenberg, Texas, the heroes riding horses and wearing 10-gallon hats were all white men.

    But the real cowboys Callies knew were Black. His great-grandfather Lavel Callies was an enslaved cowboy who worked with horses professionally after emancipation. “We’re cowboys for three generations back,” says Callies, 71, who runs the Black Cowboy Museum .

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