Posted on 02/11/2018 1:39:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
Years after the former rodeo roper turned country singer lost his voice, LarryCallies stumbled into his past. Records from plantation days revealed connections between his slave ancestors and a white east Texas minister who had kids with slaves, uncovering hidden history became his passion.
Larry Callies owns history with a collection of boots, buckles, stirrups, photos and more on display at the Black Cowboy Museum in Rosenberg.
“I just don’t like to lose my heritage,” he said. “I don’t like to lose things that we used to have. I brought a lot of stuff from me just picking stuff up.”
Years after the former rodeo roper turned country singer lost his voice, Callies stumbled into his past. Records from plantation days revealed connections between his slave ancestors and a white east Texas minister who had kids with slaves, uncovering hidden history became his passion.
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“People think cowboys originated on TV,” Callies said. “They didn’t. They originated in the slaves. They had a house boy. They had a yard boy. They had somebody that worked the cows. He was called a cowboy. So the black cowboys were the first cowboys and they came from right here in Fort Bend County.”
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Anyone see Blazing Saddles?
“The sheriff is near!”
Blazing Saddles is a favorite-just imagine the howling if such hilarious-and un-PC-movies were produced today...
The original Lone Ranger radio and TV programs were inspired by a real former U.S. Marshal, Bass Reeves, and he was Black.
Sounds like a cool museum-far away from here, though-I’m also pretty sure my Basque/Mestizo vaquero ancestors predate his a few years-they were riding/herding in what is now W Texas before 1800...
Yes-I saw the program on Fox about Marshal Bass Reeves-he was way more interesting than the fictional Lone Ranger-he even captured and brought his own son in when he broke the law.
I just watched it again last month for the first time in decades, and found myself openly laughing...
I love the political incorrectness. And yeah-they make fun of white people too...
Now this is cool. There were a lot of minorities that were Cowboys back in the day. People don’t realize that a lot of blacks and native Americans got married and had children out in the West and Plain territories
“Try to get a little track laid here and you are dancing around her like a bunch of Kansas City faggots.”
The original Lone Ranger radio and TV programs were inspired by a real former U.S. Marshal, Bass Reeves, and he was Black.
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The character was originally believed to be inspired by Texas Ranger Captain John R. Hughes, to whom the book The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey was dedicated in 1915.[28] A debunked myth was the possible historical inspiration of Bass Reeves, the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River.[29] Other suggested inspirations were Zorro and Robin Hood.[30]
“Where’s the white women”? Lol
It would be fun to watch the reactions if another un-PC movie like “Blazing Saddles” was made today.
Mel Brooks was totally non-PC-he made fun of everyone in his movies-no race, ethnic group, sexual orientation etc escaped being ridiculed-it makes the PC “comedy” we’ve been seeing for the last 20+ years boring beyond belief-”Airplane” is another non-PC favorite...
A fair number of Mexican Americans rode the ranges in the West, punching cattle from Texas to the Kansas rail heads.
Hahahahahaha! No kidding, the “Airplane” and “Naked Gun” movies were amongst my favorites!
And don’t forget “Top Secret!”
A lot of blacks became Cowboys after the civil war, but probably not very many before that. Texas had a lot of cattle after the war, many unbranded, that were not worth much locally, but would fetch a fair price up north or back east, so they needed a lot of Cowboys that would work hard to round them up and drive them to market for not too much money.
A lot of the cowboys in the golden age of the cattle kingdom were just southern boys knocked loose by the Civil War. Black as well as white.
Yep
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