Honoring the Black American Cowboys
by Richard W Linford
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Title
Honoring the Black American Cowboys
Artist
Richard W Linford
Medium
Painting - Watercolor And Acrylic On Paper
Description
Honoring the Black American Cowboy, Watercolor and Acrylic on Paper. One in four cowboys in the Old West was black. I was born in Tremonton and grew up in Garland, Northern Utah farming and ranching communities. My grandpas and uncles owned farms. Friends were involved in farming and ranching. Rodeos, horses, cattle, farm animals, farm machinery, row crops, my mother hired me out to my uncle Ken at ten cents a row thinning beats by myself in a field in the heat of the day at age 10. At age 13, my dad took a job in California so we moved to Concord. There I worked for a summer as a day laborer on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint ranch in Vacaville, California. Vacaville is garlic and onion farming country. There is a Vacaville garlic festival. In Concord, I worked off and on for a cattle rancher - went to school with and dated his daughter - got acquainted with the rancher's expensive quarter horses, cattle and sheep. I understand oil was found on their land. When a boy I listened to the Lone Ranger, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers on the radio. Read Zane Grey novels - Riders of the Purple Save, The Lone Ranger, The Last Trail, The Spirit of the Border, The Last of the Plainsmen. The list is long. A few years back I read that African Americans played a major roll as cowboys in the west. A favorite documentary of mine is "The Great American Cowboy." This painting honors those African- American Cowboys. It is of an African-American cowboy standing by his buckskin horse - ready to mount and ride. It is watercolor and acrylic on paper. Katie Nodjimbadem wrote for The Smithsonian The Lesser-Known History of African-American Cowboys. She is the person who highlights the fact that one in four cowboys was black. She writes: "In his 1907 autobiography, cowboy Nat Love recounts stories from his life on the frontier so cliché, they read like scenes from a John Wayne film. He describes Dodge City, Kansas, a town smattered with the romanticized institutions of the frontier: “a great many saloons, dance halls, and gambling houses, and very little of anything else.” He moved massive herds of cattle from one grazing area to another, drank with Billy the Kid and participated in shootouts with Native peoples defending their land on the trails. And when not, as he put it, “engaged in fighting Indians,” he amused himself with activities like “dare-devil riding, shooting, roping and such sports.”
You can read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lesser-known-history-african-american-cowboys.
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