The most famous Black outlaw from the wild west era was a Cherokee Freedmen, the mixed son of a Buffalo soldier and Cherokee mother. His name was Crawford Goldsby. But both the New York Times and his own mother called him: Cherokee Bill. This episode explores the ideas of law, order and justice at a time when there was little of any of those for Black Americans.
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Chapter 9: Cinematic Black Cowboys
Chapter 8: Panhandle Slim
Chapter 7: Bill Pickett
Chapter 6: Stagecoach Mary
Chapter 5: Chief John Horse
Chapter 4: The First Black Cowboy, Esteban the Negro
Chapter 3: The Lawman Bass Reeves
Chapter 1: Nat Love, the toughest black cowboy.
Introducing: Black Cowboys
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