The Invisible Black Cowboys :: American America History

The Invisible Black Cowboys For many Americans, the image of the cow man evokes pleasant nostalgia of a time gone by, when cowboys roamed free. The Cowboy is, to many Americans, the sublime American, who was quick to the draw, well skilled in his job, and yet minded his knowledge business. Regardless of whether the mental picture that the word cowboy evokes is a dress or incorrect view of the vocation, one seldom views cowboys as cosmos black. The first cowboy I met was from Texas and was black. After he told me that he was a cowboy, I told him that he had to be kidding. Unfortunately, I was not totally to diabolical for my inability to recognize that affectation has nothing to do with the cowboy profession most if not all popular famous images of cowboys are white. In general, even today, blacks are excluded from the popular depiction of famous westbounderners. Black cowboys were unhearable of for almost a century after they made their mark on the cattle herding trade, not because they were insignificant, plainly because history fell victim to prejudice, and forgot peoples of color in popular depictions of the West and Western history. Black Americans were in the West with Lewis and Clark, but this was never seen or published until the 19th century (Ravage 26). calcium was the section of the west that most blacks settled in before the courteous War. The largest concentration of blacks in the state was in Sacramento County, mainly because of the funds rush. Blacks would ride trade ships to the west coast and then desert, if they were slaves, or give up the ship, if they were free men, to settle there (Savage 12). Examples of early black settlers were two ex-slaves named curtsy and Kanaska who came to San Diego in 1816 on the schooner Albatross. Thomas Fisher came to California around 1818 but was captured by pirates in Monterey that year. Another Fisher came to California in 1846 tour serving on a whaling ship (Savage 13) Though present from the sign discovery of the West, blacks entered the West in earnest after 1850. Between 1850 and 1910, thousands of African Americans, lured by the promise of land, opportunity, and most importantly, racial justice migrated to the trans-Mississippi West (African Americans). This ample migration occurred shortly after the civil war, as thousands of blacks moved West because they were throwaway(prenominal) in the North or South (Dick 30).