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From Socialist Review, No. 182, January 1995.
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Copied with thanks from the Socialist Review Archive.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
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One of the few black cowboys to make the big time – Bill Pickett became famous at the turn of the century for being able to bring a steer to its knees by biting its upper lip!
Most other blacks faced racism and discrimination from ranch bosses and fellow cowboys. Their stories are rarely if ever featured in traditional images of the wild west, yet they constituted between ½ and ¼ of the total cowboy population in the late 1800s.
These are only a few of the rare photos and facts in a recently released book on the cowboys of the Americas. As well as racism against blacks and native Americans it covers women ranchers and popular literature and myths surrounding the cowboy culture.
Cowboys of the Americas by Richard W. Slatta is published by Yale University Press, £14.95, and can be ordered from Bookmarks
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