[Alia]

Hmm. A pal was marine -- then went army. He makes Lenny Bruce sound so boring and utterly non-creative. :)

Not to nag; but do you have that url or book/article about the black cowboys of the west being ratio'd at approx 1:6?

[ExSoldier]

Pardon ma'am, but I've been a-teachin' history for so long, it's a fact just sorta seared into muh mind. IOW, no...not a specific source. But you should easily be able to check this one and verify. I got this from Ask.com: By 1877 and the end of Reconstruction ... 94% of blacks lived in the South, did not own land, few had gone west to homestead ... 50% of cowboys were black (poor pay) ...... and it is a Georgetown University class....synopsis. Of course as economic advantages rose or fell, the percentage of all occupations shift by demographics.