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Black History in the American Old West

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Howdy, followers. Today, I’m going to show you these old pictures of African Americans in the American Old West, also featuring photos of famous and legendary Black figures that I considered them as legends of the American western history.

I’m going to be honest with you all as I’m going to give prosperous facts; African American were and still are cowboys and cowgirls. We already had these skills of saddling, cattle ranching, farming, agriculture, and riding horses, back in the ancient times in Northern/Western Africa before Christ, Islam, and colonization. It was an golden age back than.

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Bill Pickett (1871-1932), rodeo performer.

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Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick (1854-1921), cowboy and saddler.

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Jesse Stahl (1879-1935), cowboy and rodeo star.

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John Ware (1845?-1905), rancher, saddler, and cowboy.  

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James Pierson Beckwourth (1805-1866), mountain man, fur trader, scout, and explorer. 

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Isom Dart (Ned Huddleston) (1849-1900), cowboy, criminal, and outlaw.  

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Bass Reeves (1838-1910), lawman and deputy U.S. marshal

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George Fletcher (1890-1973), rodeo star and cowboy. 

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George Glenn  (1850–1931), cowboy.   

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Dangerfield Newby (1815-1859), freedom fighter and rebellion.    

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Mary Fields (1832-1914), mail courier. 

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Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), freedom fighter, slave rebellion, scout, spy, nurse, and guerrilla soldier. 

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John Horse (1812–1882), slave rebellion and freedom fighter. 


Now, here are old pictures of black people in the old American west. 

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This is John Ware and his wife and kids. 

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That’s Bass Reeves

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Bill Pickett’s family members. 

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This is Harriet Tubman in her previous age. 

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 Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist and human right activist. 

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Let’s not forget the lead Exoduster in the migration of freed Black people to Kansas after the Civil War.

Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton who coined “Ho Kansas”

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I cant find public photos of them but I have worked in a Black History archives that confirmed the O'dair family (later Adair a lot of Black families in Kansas/Oklahoma have claim to the linage) as the first Black family established in Kansas in today’s Lyon county.

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“I visited the pumpkin patch yesterday and decided to bring home a pumpkin that in shape appeared to be a penguin. Friends and family were mystified until I started painting him.“

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by Volensblood

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Neat shadows

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I like how the shadows move like things do when you’re watching them go by while you’re on the train. That’s neat as fuck.

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@maemian

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