Ep. 117 - Rebranding the American Cow Boy

When it comes to the history of the American Cowboy, modern media has painted the picture to look one way when the reality shows that enslaved African Americans known as "Cow Boys" were truly the icons that changed the west, creating a unique equalizer post Emancipation Proclamation. Katie Surritt & Katie Schrock take a deep dive into the history of African American cow boys and the impacts they have had on the west, cattle drives, and rodeo as we know it.

Advocacy, Rodeo, Western Lifestyle, Western History, RanchingKatie SchrockFebruary 15, 2023Cowboy, cow boy, Katie Surritt, Katie Schrock, Fred Whitfield, history, slavery, African American, Yellowstone, Gunsmoke, Beth Dutton, Dutton, Gambia River alley, Africa, cow hunters, cowpunchers, cattlemen, drovers, ranchers, plantations, civil war, Yellowstone 1883, Johanna July, Army, emancipation proclamation, emancipation, Abraham Lincoln, Disney, Pendleton, Washington, Oregon, KKK, segregation, cowpunchers association, punchy, world war II, Matthew Bones Hook, black cowboys in the american west, the black west, Guts: legendary black rodeo cowboy bill pickett, Black women of the west, black frontier: a history of african american heroes in the old west, Lesser known history of African American cowboys, Spanish Louisiana land policy, Library of congress colectionComment

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