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When Larry Callies went to the movies as a boy in Rosenberg, Texas, the heroes riding horses and wearing 10-gallon hats were all white men.

But the real cowboys Callies knew were Black. His great-grandfather Lavel Callies was an enslaved cowboy who worked with horses professionally after emancipation. “We’re cowboys for three generations back,” says Callies, 71, who runs the Black Cowboy Museum.

Historians estimate that 20% to 25% of the people who settled the continental US west – a region from Washington state to Montana and New Mexico to California – were Black men and women. They moved cattle on horseback, settled towns, kept the peace and delivered the mail in the wild, wild west. But Black cowgirls and cowboys have been pretty much invisible to most. For nearly 200 years, two separate cowboy narratives, one Black and one white, have trotted side by side in the US. The two have rarely crossed paths. Until now.

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[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

CowBOY. Being called a boy wasn't a compliment. Should put a pin in the whole cowboys being white thing. Majority were black and latino

[–] comador@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Vaquero and Charro are the original terms used, but are Spanish in origin and were discarded after the Mexican American war in favor of a more US identity: Cowboy and Cowgirl, a literal translation of the word Vaquero and Vaquera that ended up being adopted.

And yes, there were real Cowgirls just as much as there were black cowboys.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Black Western is a (small) movie genre. The films are uneven in my opinion (Django Unchained vs. Posse), but here's a list if you want to check some out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African-American_Western_(genre)_films

[–] Apollonius_Cone@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

They should make an African parody cowboy movie and call it 'Best Western.'

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago
[–] cdf12345@lemm.ee -5 points 5 months ago

Another settlement needs your help