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'Delta Hill Riders': African-American cowboy culture in the Mississippi Delta
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| 6/15/18
Posted on 06/16/2018 11:45:00 AM PDT by BBell
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To: Vince Ferrer
had far more black cowboys than ever depicted in Hollywood movies......I got into a hell of a fight on FR with some Yahoo that never heard of the fact most cowboys shortly after the CW were blacks escaping from slavery and trying to make a living. They also trapped, built trading post and farmed where they could in the Rocky Mountains.
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posted on
06/16/2018 12:39:00 PM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: BBell
For years, up until this year there was a Black Cowboy museum along where Linden Blvd eastbound runs into the North Conduit. It went back at least 40 years that I remember. They had the names of accomplished Cowboys on signs hung on the corral fence. It was a little sad to see it go.
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posted on
06/16/2018 12:39:17 PM PDT
by
TalBlack
(It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
To: BBell
Interesting. One of my great grandfathers was a black Mississippi cowboy in the early 1900s.
My grandfather told me that he spent a year on the range, herding cattle with his dad when he was thirteen.
I never rode or herded cattle myself, but I do wear the hat (see my profile).
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posted on
06/16/2018 12:44:07 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: BBell
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posted on
06/16/2018 12:48:35 PM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
To: RedMonqey
when I was a kid we had a book about the real cowboys and a chapter was dedicated to black cowboys so I was familiar with them. I just had never actually seen A lot of them in real life. The ones I was familiar with were the white and Hispanic ones.
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posted on
06/16/2018 12:48:59 PM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
To: EEGator
That is a not Ken Burns classic.
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posted on
06/16/2018 12:52:28 PM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
To: BBell
How about U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves. First black Marshal west of the Mississippi. Apprehended over 3,000 outlaws (only had to shoot 14 of them), took his oath seriously, arrested his own son for murder charges.
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posted on
06/16/2018 12:53:18 PM PDT
by
sageburn
To: Safetgiver
One of the interesting things about the movie Blazing Saddles is that it actually get a lot of details right, more than other westerns. The Trans-Continental railroad was built shortly after the Civil War, with both Union and Confederate former soldiers, Irish immigrants, former slaves, and Chinese workers.
To: deport
Holy smokes! That picture of Bill Pickett looks eerily like my grandfather, who was the son of a black Mississipi cowboy.
Goose bumps.
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posted on
06/16/2018 12:55:35 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: BBell
Loved reading about cowboys, real or fictional.
It was a hard life but it did afford a measure of freedom and redemption. Lots were what we would call “social outcasts”
The cattlemen were an colorful lot, too. Surprised a few were of the old world money, lower or minor aristocracy, IIRC.
But then, you already knew that.(smiles)
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posted on
06/16/2018 12:55:53 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
To: RedMonqey
Great Grandpa Lurkin “rode fence” on the Irvine Ranch. Does that mean he was bottom rung?
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posted on
06/16/2018 1:00:08 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Windflier
Cool. Maybe ya got some distant relatives in this bunch.
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posted on
06/16/2018 1:04:48 PM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
To: BBell; All; FReepers
It is true that in these times few people are aware of the "Black Cowboys" even fewer know about the
PaniolosThe Hawaiian Cowboys.
(Click The Pic)
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posted on
06/16/2018 1:04:57 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: BenLurkin
Dont the alligators eat them?
A few occasionally but that's why you keep a close eye on your heard. And carry a rifle. Gators are spread all across the mid and lower south. East Texas has a few spots where cattle and gators mix. Heck, a gator was photographed in west Tennessee this past spring(Climate Warming?)
Note: Not speaking from actually experience but my younger brother has a friend who lives in Louisiana and runs a farm down there. Likes to regal us Tennessee boys with his tales of "triumph and woe."
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posted on
06/16/2018 1:09:57 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
To: Windflier
IIRC, lots of black cowboys rode west with the herds, married Indian women, then settled down & raised families.
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posted on
06/16/2018 1:10:36 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: Fiddlstix
Gee, what keeps em from falling into the volcanoes?(Hahaha, see post# 17)
Whereever one has a herd of cows, you have to have somebody to tend to them.
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posted on
06/16/2018 1:12:48 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
To: BBell
Cool. Maybe ya got some distant relatives in this bunch. Definitely possible, though my paternal line came out of northern Mississippi, not the delta.
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posted on
06/16/2018 1:12:55 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: Fiddlstix
Cool! Thanks for the link. I remember when I was young learning about the Gauchos. They are a tough breed as well.
There are cowboys everywhere.
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posted on
06/16/2018 1:13:05 PM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
To: TribalPrincess2U
I did, thank you.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
John Adams 1826
Tip of the hat.
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posted on
06/16/2018 1:13:49 PM PDT
by
Norski
To: RedMonqey; BenLurkin
I have seen this video. The horse stomps the poop out of this unfortunate gator.
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posted on
06/16/2018 1:16:09 PM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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