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Black Cowboys

Black Cowboys

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 Zaron Burnett’s dad didn’t want slavery to be his son’s only image of Black people in American history. So every night, he filled Zaron’s dreams with these incredible stories of Black cowboys. Despite what Hollywood taught us, one-in-four cowboys were Black. Their stories tell a bigger, braver, more honest history of America.2025 iHeartMedia, Inc. © Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from iHeartMedia Social Sciences World
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  • Introducing: Black Cowboys

    Introducing: Black Cowboys
    Feb 8 2021


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    1 min
  • Chapter 1: Nat Love, the toughest black cowboy.

    Chapter 1: Nat Love, the toughest black cowboy.
    Feb 18 2021

    In this episode we meet Nat Love, the toughest Black Cowboy. But Nat Love’s life was more than just wild horses and gunfights. This is the story of an enslaved man who found freedom in the West. A man who roamed America, just like they did in the westerns. He did it for real.

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    37 mins
  • Chapter 2: The Outlaw Cherokee Bill

    Chapter 2: The Outlaw Cherokee Bill
    Feb 25 2021

    The most famous Black outlaw from the wild west era was a Cherokee Freedmen, the mixed son of a Buffalo soldier and Cherokee mother. His name was Crawford Goldsby. But both the New York Times and his own mother called him: Cherokee Bill. This episode explores the ideas of law, order and justice at a time when there was little of any of those for Black Americans.

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    51 mins
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Thank you for this. I'm a Cowboy, a Black Man, Father, and Long Haul Trucker. My Great Grandfather owned a horse ranch in Montana, and he raised my Grandfather on it until it was taken from them. I was raised by my Mother in the Cowboy Way, and sometimes I let my people make me feel less Black because of my way, but this History reinforces my upbringing, and gives me real confidence in who I am. Thank you for telling our story.

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i love the storytelling and i really love his Dad's contributions! i have been interested in learning more about Black Cowboys and this podcast is a great start - i just want to hear/read more about them.
my only "complaint" is how the narrator/podcaster's viewpoints kinda shade some of the story or even the cowboy's own account. i understand we can't help it sometimes, but history tells itself. and we can't put our modern perspective on it without taking away from the story.
still- all in all, i could tell from all these episodes, there was real interest and love for Black Cowboys and Black History. that is awesome and much needed!

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