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I heard a radio interview of a woman who was from a long line of cowboys. She stated that many of the original cowboys in West Texas and beyond were run away slaves, orphans and runaway kids. Being a cowboy was a very tough life, with all kinds of dangers from wild animals and weather. The first thing they would try to get was a gun to protect themselves, which is how that became part of their get-up in Hollywood. She said that being a cowboy was a job that nobody wanted, because they were alone with the animals and didn't make much money.

The barbary wars has bigger affect than most relaize

Segregation still exist today not just as a ranch or farm hands an even alot of jobs in the city

People are only Forgotten when we allow it. Cowboy is anyone of color who works hard it don't necessarily has to be on a farm or ranch a hat a pair of boots don't make one a Cowboy ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

If you can make a hand it did not matter what color you are. More than half of the working cowboys on the Texas gulf coast are black and nobody even notices their color, they are judged on their merit and character

I had the honor of meeting and spending some time with communities of Black cowboys and cowgirls living the life from Muskogee to Okmulgee to McCallister(?). Wonderful people ❤ in the early 90s. Thank you so Much 🎉

I see you blacks keeping the mexican culture alive and well? The word rodeo and lasso are spanish words?

Mr Callies own the Black Cowboy Museum in Rosenberg,Tx.

Please enjoy mexican culture.

RIH Grandpa “Richard Gaston”. ❤❤

Spainards came in 1492 bringing horses and cattle to America from europe. Spainards mated with native American indians and mexicans came out and have been riding horses since the 1500s till now, whites learned about riding horses in the 1800s and blacks learned after slavery ended in 1860s. Rodeos and roping is from mexican cowboys called vaqueros. To learn more about vaqueros google it and reasearch?

Thank y'all so much for this god bless❤

As a Brown Man I never knew some of this very interesting history of my people.I feel we have been lied to some much as a child we never seen brown cowboys.but as I began to search it is so sad how they hide our accomplishment .thank you for this life Savings vedio .

The first cowboys where Mexican they invented the rope and the horn on the Seattle the spurs even the word cowboy comes from the word vaqueros there’s no doubt that there were black cowboys but they were not the first

Black cowboys turn up🙏💪🏾😇

Cowboy came from the word Vaquero. Vaca in spanish is cow, vaquero is cowboy came from the Mexican Spaniard people. Rodeo came from the spanish word "rodear" meaning to surround. Mexican Spaniard people were the first cowboys.

The main forgotten man of the west is the mexican vaquero who were the 1st cowboys of northamerica but they never get mentioned or get credit for makimg cowboy cutlure what it is today

this is amazing and an eye opener! all my life, i thought cowboys were the clint eastwoods of this country...i must say though, @12:36, harold cash' voice sounds like darth vader with sinusitis.

I'm a cowboy baby

Now let me add MY prayer! Dear GOD make these humble men far above and beyond normal may you use your mighty hand make them break all the barriers! I ask that you use your mighty and help me make those white demons ashamed to look at a horse! Dear GOD make a evil spirit get in all their horses and bulls so that even the demon loving audience be scared and trampled with your mighty power Lord show them that the evil THEY do cannot win over us may you send the swarms over their crops till its nothing but bare ground send pestilence over their evil land so that stomachs are swole and their mouths are dry as the desert for the evil THEY do let them not have ONE record left that we haven't destroyed I pray this in your name FATHER AMEN.

Black history Month,they gave us a black history month, and I was not impressed. All I see every year is how blacks were slaves. This is how you celebrate black history month, we know about slavery. Story like this is what black history should be about the forgotten blacks that made history. Proud Blacks. This reminds me of Black Tulsa, blacks had their own and the whites burned it down and killed and nothing was done about it.

You need to get real they don't like you don't matter how good you are

Nothing like the Truth.

Amen to this documentary. What I always thought. Very, very , very interesting. I know they had a lot of swag riding them horses. Thanks for sharing this valuable information.

We are the first and real cowboy's

I had the pleasure of working with tex Williams in the eighties he is a true example of a true cowboy and gentleman

My grandpa was a cowboy back in texas R.I.P. Grady Mathis

Like Irish didn't have cattle.

I really enjoyed this, rewatching with my grandson, thank you

They didn't want u to compete because they knew u would take over the sport. Only Weak Human Beings think like that. The cow is the female of the species. The real Men were the Buffalo Soldiers. The male of the Species. ALSO AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN

Awsome knowledge for a guy up north in canada great black history

Texas Ag teacher here! I am teaching my students this month about African American Cowboys and the African American Ag innovators! I am showing this documentary to my class and I am excited for my students to learn about the history of the cowboy and the amazing agriculture inventions that came from African Americans!

love the ending prayer!!

Those aren't African Americans...those are ALL Native Americans.

Kool

Good too know!

its crazy to how he still hides his face under hat even in prayer

I love our Untold History

This is awesome 👌

I wish holly wood can see this also

I felt that prayer.

This is perfect, especially for the black cowboys of today!

Racial hatred is truly a sickness of the heart and the dark and evil history America has all the way up until now is understandably something white America does not want to be associated with so you have their talking heads like Matt Walsh Ben Shapiro and a few misguided blacks Candace Owens (married to a white man who I’m sure influences her thinking) Thomas Sowell etc. who fail miserably at discounting and minimizing the history of slavery through the narrow scope of it was popular or trendy during the time period while that is not the issue as it’s portrayed in this video that went way beyond the period of slavery. But if we could all just realize this country did benefit during slavery and the centuries of segregation and discrimination afterwards and now just respectively turn the page and work hard against the divide and conquer methods of polarized political parties and build together on the ground every day people because that’s all that’s down here is blacks whites Latino Asians and everyone in between everyone else is talking to us from a teleprompter

White folks who is me have more in common with black folks than we do differently... Especially being from the south... I grew up on soul food... Grits and beans and cornbread and fried chicken.... Wish we could see how much we are alike

Forgotten rich history of cultural robbery, by white supremacy.

Ironically many Mexicans were a mixture of black, Indian and Spanish.

It’s crazy bc I was ostracized by both the black and non black communities for Pershing something that was “for whit ppl” only to find out years later that black ppl are actually quite literally the foundation of cowboy culture

czcams.com/video/a5BWsoTY2tE/video.html Cowboys are Spanish and Mexican tradition going back hundreds of years before black and white people existed. This is how black people are trying to native Hispanic people's heritage just like Anglos

Amen and AMEN

Awesome! Love It!