Blacks in the American West: Cowboys
This is Part two of the series on Black Americans in the western United States. It covers cowboys from South Carolina to the Wild and Wooly West from the 1700s to the early 1900s. This Episode of the podcast covers James Cape, Matthew Bones Hooks, Nat Love aka Red River Dick aka Deadwood Dick, Isom Dart aka Ned Huddleston, George McJunkin & others.
Select Sources:
https://www.nps.gov/cavo/learn/historyculture/george-mcjunkin.htm
Franklin Folsom’s Black Cowboy: The Life and Legend of George McJunkin
Steven Rinella’s American Buffalo
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Wagner’s Black Cowboys of the Old West
Siringo’s A Texas Cowboy
Utah Centennial County History Series Daggett County 1998 by Robert E. Parson and Daniel A. Stebbins
https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/black-cowboy-demeaned-by-fictional-representation/article_51322eb2-b44f-11eb-aa56-efc799cf8b9c.html
https://www.reporterherald.com/2017/09/23/black-cowboy-isom-dart-assassinated/
http://www.eltiste-kaiser.com/HoyFile/Hoy-1/JSHoy.htm
https://www.nps.gov/cavo/learn/historyculture/george-mcjunkin.htm
https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2015/02/23/george-mcjunkin-and-the-discovery-that-changed-american-archaeology/ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mcjunkin-george-1851-1922/
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/george-mcjunkin/
https://archeology.uark.edu/george-mcjunkin/
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texans-you-should-know-how-a-black-cowboys-discovery-changed-the-field-of-archaeology/
Black Cowboy: Daniel Webster ’80 John Wallace by Douglas Hales in The Cowboy Way: An exploration of History and Culture