Posted on May 6, 2024
A Kansas City native started his own Black rodeo to celebrate the cowboys left out of Western...
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Western Culture? Western History? Every Wonder How Kansas City became the "Fountain City" Ever Heard of the Cattle Drives? Who would have Thunk It? Driving Cattle to Kansas City to Load on Rail Cars to Move East or Butcher and Ship East. Horse Troughs, Cattle Troughs became Fancier and Fancier. Black Cowboys? I'm Quite Familiar seeing One East Bannister Road Riding His Horse.
A Kansas City native started his own Black rodeo to celebrate the cowboys left out of Western...
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In the heyday of cattle drives, blacks made up about 25 percent of cowboys. Another 25%-30% were Latino.
Sure not like the movies told it.
Sure not like the movies told it.
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In the mid-80s one of my rodeo travel partners and I were invited to compete in a Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo in OKC. We met a great rodeo photographer named Spider (can't recall his last name) who later went on to be a PRCA photographer -- not an easy feat for anybody -- and was one of the first black PRCA photographers. "Mulie" was one of the bull riders there. He would light a cigarette before he got on his bull. I asked him how come he didn't go Pro since he was a great bull rider. He told me it was because the PRCA wouldn't let him smoke while riding, lol.
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