You picture a lone white gunslinger riding into the sunset. That image is almost completely wrong — and the real story of the American cowboy has been quietly erased for over a century.
In this video, you’ll discover why roughly one in four working cowboys was Black, why the entire “cowboy” toolkit actually came from Mexican vaqueros centuries earlier, why cow towns like Abilene and Dodge City banned guns instead of hosting daily shootouts, and why the whole open-range cowboy era lasted barely twenty years before it vanished. You’ll meet real figures history left out of the frame, like Nat Love and Bill Pickett, and see exactly why the myth survived long after the job itself disappeared.
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