"The Black West" Topic
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| Tango01 | 08 Oct 2016 10:56 p.m. PST |
"Black Outlaws and Cowboys of the old west you might be saying with wonderment and head scratching! "Why that's an oxymoron! I've never heard of such a thing!". Yeah, Yeah I know you haven't because they were literally "white washed" (pun intended) out of Old West history. Oh I know you may have heard of the "Buffalo Soldiers" but that was only part of the story. According to historians, about a third of all the cowboys were African Americans. Bet you never saw that in the movies when you were growing up did cha?…"
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| Cyrus the Great | 09 Oct 2016 9:29 a.m. PST |
If you are a real student of the Old West, there is nothing new here. |
| Brian Smaller | 09 Oct 2016 11:41 a.m. PST |
A lot of facts like these are white washed from history if one gets ones history from movies and tv shows. If from actual history books and original accounts it is nothing new. |
| goragrad | 11 Oct 2016 12:48 p.m. PST |
Rather like the whitewashing out of the Mexican-American presence and contributions to the cowboy and the West. |
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