| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Black Cowboys of Texas. Edited by Sara R. Massey. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2000. xix + 361 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Estimates are that over 8,000 (25% of the total) African American cowboys herded cattle up the trail from Texas between 1866 and 1895. African American cowboys worked in every phase of the Texas cattle industry, as the 27 authors of Black Cowboys of Texas reveal. Sara R. Massey guided the authors of this project to cover three parts of cowboy life in the Lone Star Republic and state. These include "The Early Cowboys" (those who worked prior to the Civil War), "Cowboys of the Cattle Drives," and "Twentieth-Century Cowboys." Inserted into the cattle-drive section, however, are stories of black cowboys who worked for many years on ranches and never went "up the trail." 1

Even a couple of black cowgirls or cowwomen made the book--Henrietta Williams Forster, "Aunt Rittie," a legend in South Texas who could throw calves, ride, and do anything a man could do with cattle, and Johanna July, a Black Seminole, who lived near Bracketville and Fort Duncan and broke horses. . . .

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