Tricia Martineau Wagner is a nationally renowned author, historian, and living-history presenter. She is the author of Black Cowboys of the Old West, It Happened on the Underground Railroad, African American Women of the Old West, and It Happened on the Oregon Trail.
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The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses-men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the b... SEE MORE