Black Cowboys

May 14 2021 10 ep. 40 mins 3.9k
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Zaron Burnett’s dad didn’t want slavery to be his son’s only image of Black people in American history. So every night, he filled Zaron’s dreams with these incredible stories of Black cowboys. Despite what Hollywood taught us, one-in-four cowboys were Black. Their stories tell a bigger, braver, more honest history of America.

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Chapter 9: Cinematic Black Cowboys

May 14 2021 47 mins  
Zaron grew up watching Westerns with Pop, and together they explore the history of Black cowboys on the big screen. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 8: Panhandle Slim

May 06 2021 30 mins  
When a young white college kid named Patrick meets up with a singing Black cowboy named Panhandle Slim, a whole world is revealed through Slim's intimate "story songs." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 7: Bill Pickett

Apr 15 2021 48 mins  
King of the Bullriders, Bronco-busters, and Bulldoggers

Chapter 6: Stagecoach Mary

Apr 01 2021 43 mins  
Stagecoach Mary was a woman on her own in the world, who did most of her hard living after the age of 40. She lived with nuns in the daytime, drank whiskey with men in saloons at night. She was the first black woman to drive a wagon for the US postal service. Tough as she was, she was also known for the verdant lushness of her well-tended gardens. Mary was a woman of dualities, and

Chapter 5: Chief John Horse

Mar 25 2021 53 mins  
Moses of the Black Seminoles

Chapter 4: The First Black Cowboy, Esteban the Negro

Mar 11 2021 49 mins  
The story of Black cowboys begins not on horseback riding the high plains, but with horses tied up on Spanish ships riding the high seas. Meet Esteban the Negro. Or Esteban the Moor. The Spanish called him Estevanico. Before his voyage and his adventures in North America are over, he will transform from a slave into a god. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpod

Chapter 3: The Lawman Bass Reeves

Mar 04 2021 45 mins  
Bass Reeves was the most lethal lawman in the wild west. Over his 32-year career Reeves arrested more than 3,000 alleged criminals, and killed more than a dozen of them. But the image of a formerly enslaved Black man riding around on horseback with a license to kill tended to make white people uncomfortable. Hear how Bass Reeves commitment to justice overcame racism, and even his o

Chapter 2: The Outlaw Cherokee Bill

Feb 25 2021 50 mins  
The most famous Black outlaw from the wild west era was a Cherokee Freedmen, the mixed son of a Buffalo soldier and Cherokee mother. His name was Crawford Goldsby. But both the New York Times and his own mother called him: Cherokee Bill. This episode explores the ideas of law, order and justice at a time when there was little of any of those for Black Americans. Learn more about y

Chapter 1: Nat Love, the toughest black cowboy.

Feb 17 2021 36 mins  
In this episode we meet Nat Love, the toughest Black Cowboy. But Nat Love’s life was more than just wild horses and gunfights. This is the story of an enslaved man who found freedom in the West. A man who roamed America, just like they did in the westerns. He did it for real. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for

Introducing: Black Cowboys

Feb 08 2021 1 mins  
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