'Delta Hill Riders': African-American cowboy culture in the Mississippi Delta

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[Tax-chick]

No, it just means he got into the industry rather late in its historical development. In the 1860s and early 1870s, there were no fences.

[BBell]

Horse Stomps On Alligator

[Windflier]

IIRC, lots of black cowboys rode west with the herds, married Indian women, then settled down & raised families.

There was definitely a lot of mixing between blacks and Indians after the Civil War. My family tree is a testament to that.

[EEGator]

I do find it quite hilarious though.
They made it back during that Writer’s strike some years ago.

[RedMonqey]

Great Grandpa Lurkin “rode fence” on the Irvine Ranch. Does that mean he was bottom rung?

Generally speaking, yes.

Unless he was the owner of said ranch. We mend our own fences and we are not lower rung but then again we are not cowboys in the "Golden Age of the West"(middle Tennessee farming family)
Did he do this as a young man? Or on a "dude ranch?(pay to play ranch hand)
I don't know your family history so you should investigate.

[RedMonqey]

“Just leave him alooooone” Hahaha. Surprising but not really. Horses do occasional attack predators when threatened.

[TribalPrincess2U]

That’s great. Maybe you could help by posting requests like mine. That’s the only way I can help, other then my small donations.

[oldvirginian]

“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.”

I first heard of Bass Reeves on the History channel. He was featured in Legends And Lies as well as Gunslingers.

Bass was a runaway slave who hid out in the Indian Territory until slavery was abolished.
He was recruited because of his knowledge of the Territory and the Indian languages.

Bass was once himself accused of the murder of a posse cook, he stood trial and was acquitted.

Bass died in 1910 of nephritis.

There is a statue of Bass Reeves in Fort Smith, AR.

Quite the man and character.

[married21]

“I was once driving in downtown Baltimore, and three Black dudes were riding horses. I was so confused...”

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Heard a news story some years ago about African-American horse clubs in Philadelphia. These were urban stables where members could pay dues and use the horses. The last one folded in about the 90s?

Also, I think it must have been a thing to do around the turn of the 20th Century. When I visited Russia, I was told that, during communism, there were urban stables with the same sort of arrangements. Some things in Russia sort of froze in time during the communism years. I think that was one of them. Another thing was the ice cream. Prior to communism, Carnation had sold ice cream there. Under communism, they kicked out Carnation but kept the same recipe, vanilla only, and made it exactly the same way for decades. By comparison to modern commercial recipes in teh US, the old-fashioned Russian vanilla was very good.

[BBell]

Typical libtard

[BenLurkin]

He was not the owner. It was not a hobby. And yes, I believe this was as a young man before he found better work.

[Monterrosa-24]

Most people think of the Mississippi delta as being the Mississippi River delta. But the state of Mississippi’s Delta region is the northwestern part of the state. All the little creeks and rivers flowing into the Mississippi River get sluggish and swampy in delta-like conditions. “The Delta” is just south of Memphis and north of Vicksburg.

You have a great “about page” !!!

[Monterrosa-24]

Most people think of the Mississippi delta as being the Mississippi River delta. But the state of Mississippi’s Delta region is the northwestern part of the state. All the little creeks and rivers flowing into the Mississippi River get sluggish and swampy in delta-like conditions. “The Delta” is just south of Memphis and north of Vicksburg.

You have a great “about page” !!!

[Bodega]

Great Grandpa Lurkin “rode fence” on the Irvine Ranch. Does that mean he was bottom rung?

Generally speaking, yes.

Unless he was the owner of said ranch.
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It is so odd...all of us “rode fence” one time or another. Maintaining fence integrity was actually everyone’s responsibility. I don’t recall any one person having to do it as a “responsibility”. But then I was young and wasn’t familiar with doling out job responsibilities.

[Monterrosa-24]

Oops!, Sorry! Sent a post to you that was intended for Windflier.

[DesertRhino]

This is the kind of thing that American and the American black community needs badly. Lot’s of stories like this.

[BBell]

The local cowboys do try to work with some young folks from New Orleans in a Mentorship sort of way.

[RedMonqey]

Typical libtard

For Sure

Funny story.

Back when the government started allowing "adoption" of the Western mustangs in order to save it from the slaughter, a local couple had a few acres and thought it good that they get one of these wild horses. Well, these animals are "as is' and not a lick of training goes with them. This couple, from Pennsylvania(and not the rural area, either) got their horse and tried to ride it. (Some said the first day they got it)Time when on and the horse was still untamed. Winter came and the damned fool didn't provided for this creature. They thought the poor beast could eat off the small pasture the couple had. Which was possible in the height of summer. Not in the dead of winter. Lucky for the beast, some neighbors took pity on it and let the couple some of their winterstock.

Come spring, mares half the county away(according to the tales)came in heat and the couple discovers they have a stallion.

Well, now comes the fun part.

Their fences, if you could call them that, were woefully inefficient in keeping a well fed, healthy stallion with all his original equipment intact. The stallion made it's way to not only a mare but a very expensive brood mare that a local lawyer had plans to breed with a very well documented race horse.

Except the wild stallion got there "firstest with the mostest" and ruined the lawyers plans.




Long story short.

The lawyer threatened lawsuit.

The couple sold their 'hobby farm" and the stallion is no more.(Couldn't find a taker)

No word on the fate of the expected foal but rumour has it was aborted.

Libtards, am I right?

[RedMonqey]

Must have had an interesting live.

A young man ought to explore the world and do things before he settles down and raise a family.

And not have a “midlife crisis” and do crazy things.

Good for him!

[RedMonqey]

Maintaining fence integrity was actually everyone’s responsibility.

That and a whole lotta other things. When things happen, there's nobody else to call to "handle things"

No government agency. No society program.

A good neighbor is a thing to chernish, though.

That's why rural folk and ranchers in particularly tend to conservative or independents