[WENDLE]

What a joke. You are not serious. That might be the total out of a half million real cowboys. I am from a long line of REAL cowboys and I assure you — there were no black cowboys west of the Mississippi. ZERO!!

[pgyanke]

I am from a long line of REAL cowboys and I assure you — there were no black cowboys west of the Mississippi. ZERO!!

There was one... they made a movie about him...

[Robert DeLong]

While I am no expert on the number of black cowboys in the West, I can say with certainty that it wasn’t zero. There is recorded history of them. Now the accuracy of the numbers recorded may be disputable, but the existence of them is not.

[Hootowl]

Maybe you should do some research. In the 19th century, an estimated 25% of all cowboys were black, including one of the most famous cowboys of the time, Nat Love. Racial discrimination in the early 20th century pretty much did away with black cowboys so it’s not surprising that you’ve never seen one.

[SanchoP]

Who was Bill Pickett?
Famous Texans

[Alas Babylon!]

Buffalo soldiers?

Maybe not cowboys as in herders of cattle, but certainly their presence was widely known in the West. When the cavalry appeared just in the nick of time, it was often made up of black troops.

Looks West of the Mississippi to me...