Black Explorers, Cowboys & the West — EPUB Ebook

Black Explorers, Cowboys & the West by Carlos L. Young Sr. — EPUB Ebook. Volume 10 of the Left Out of the History Books series (The Digital Black Voice). The West was never all white — it was just written that way. This volume documents 23 lives and communities from 1528 to 1920, graded by their paper trail: Estevanico, who walked out of a shipwreck into legend; York, whose vote the Lewis and Clark journals recorded and whose freedom his owner withheld; James Beckwourth, whose memoir is quoted as a memoir, not gospel; Mary Fields, separated here from the tall tales into her documented star-route record; Bass Reeves, whose 3,000 arrests were his own 1901 count and print as such; and the builders of Nicodemus, Boley, Allensworth, and Blackdom. The famous "one in four cowboys was Black" claim is traced to its source and printed at its true size. EPUB: 46 pages in print layout.