Where To Stream America's Hidden Stories Season 3 Episode 2

The story of how great heroes and white men won the American West is one of the West's most powerful myths. This special tells the flip side of that myth. The idea of being a cowboy exemplified freedom for many Americans. Yet few of us know that the first cowboys were actually enslaved Black men looking after cattle herds on Texas ranches. In 1875, one in four American cowboys were Black — Black sheriffs, Black trappers, and Black soldiers. Some had been adopted as children by Native American...