Black Cowboys of Texas
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
Published:30th Dec '04
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The life of a cowboy was hardly glamorous. Poorly fed, underpaid, overworked, deprived of sleep, and prone to boredom and loneliness, cowboys choked in the dust, were cold at night, and suffered broken bones in falls and spills from horses. African American cowboys, however, also had to survive discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. From scattered courthouse records, writings, and interviews with a few of the African American cowhands who were part of the history of Texas, Sara R. Massey and a host of writers have retrieved the little known stories of some of these cowboys.
Sarah Massey's volume is so well done that one need be neither black nor Texan to enjoy the book. Black Cowboys of Texas has the merit of expanding the horizons of two kinds of history, that of the cowboy as well as that of the African American. - The Bloomsbury Review
ISBN: 9781585444434
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 333g
382 pages