Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana

by Nancy K. Williams

Dust and Determination After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn't want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a new life. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove two thousand longhorns across southern Texas blazing a trail to Bosque Redondo in New Mexico. In 1866, the new Goodnight-Loving Trail was crowded with cattle headed for a government market. By the 1870s, twenty-five percent of the over thirty-five thousand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467153648
• ISBN13: 9781467153645
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"