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Journeyman

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1. The first (and only) rodeo I attended featured two exceptional Black cowboys . . .

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jun 17, 2021, 05:33 PM

Jun 2021

Between them, they took three or more top prizes and a few more Place & Show. It would have been enlightening, had that show provided more of the backstory, but I'm glad to see the BPIR will highlight the history.

I was well aware of the history and importance of the Buffalo Soldiers in the development of the West, but the sight of Black cowboys was novel, given their absence, or rather relegation to secondary roles, in the Western movies of my youth (this was in the early '70s).

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