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It is also true that 25% of the US Cavalry, charged with maintaining the peace on the frontier, were blacks. It is also true that a substantial number of the settlers who were homesteaders, and of the cowboys who worked the ranches, were blacks. Ancient photographs from the West show these facts.

And the American West was perhaps the greatest meritocracy ever known on these shores. If you could do there the task you had set for yourself, you would survive and thrive, regardless of who you were or where you came from. If you could not do that, a swift and painful death from any of a variety of causes would be your fate.

Thank you for putting up this very interesting post.

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Bill Pickett of the 101 Ranch, orobably the greatest cowboy of them all, was a black man.

Bill Pickett and his famous horse, Spradley

(you can tell Spradley by his small star on the forehead. Pickett sometimes rode a chestnut with a large white blaze and two white hind feet, but that wasn't Spradley.)

I recently viewed an interesting show on The History Channel about sheriffs, deputy marshalls, US marshalls, etc. in the old west. The region that was considered by most experts to be the ultimate "wild west" was known as "Indian Territory"; roughly today's Oklahoma. There were precious few lawmen that were tasked with taming this area and applying the law.........and it turns out that a good number of them (don't remember the percentage, but it was quite significant) were black. Fascinating stuff.