Section 4: Black Cowboys Were Integral to the Texas Economy

This was often a most hazardous undertaking and meant that a man was apt to be thrown on the wild

prairies and left dead. -Hector Bazy, 1910.

 

Black cowboys were integral to the Texas economy. From 1865 until the 1890s, the largest number of domestic animals in world history were driven up trails from Texas to be sold at market to provide the

country with beef. Six million cattle and one million horses were moved from Texas to points North, East, and West. Black cowboys and their families worked on ranches tending livestock. By the early

1880s, the highly profitable cattle industry was one of the largest in the United States.

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  1. Black Cowboys: An American Story Entry Object & Panel Section 1
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  2. Section 2: Who Were Black Cowboys? Men & Women
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  3. Section 2: Who Were Black Cowboys? Children
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  4. Section 2: Who Were Black Cowboys? Enslaved
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  5. Section 2: Who Were Black Cowboys? Black Ranchers
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  6. Section 2: Who Were Black Cowboys? Recovering Black Cowboys Stories
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  7. Section 2: Who Were Black Cowboys? African Origins.
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  8. Section 3: Hector Bazy, Black Cowboy
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  9. Section 4: Black Cowboys Were Integral to the Texas Economy
  10. Section 4: Tower Bios of Famous Black Cowboys
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  11. Section 4: Where did Black Cowboys Work? The Great Cattle Trails
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  12. Section 4: Essential Cowboy Skills Cooks & Other Jobs
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  13. Section 4: Wall Bio Hector Bazy
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  14. Section 4: Wall Bio Nat Love
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  15. Section 4: Impact of the Cattle Industry
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  16. Section 4: Monroe Brackins & Jim Perry Bios
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  17. Section 5: Black Cowboys - enslaved and free - used their skills to become Black Ranchers and shaped the legacies of Black ranching families
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  18. Section 5: Tower Bios of Prominent Black Ranchers & Farmers
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