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.
Author Nancy Williams recounts their lasting legacy..
They were paid equally, and their skill and ability brought them earned respect and prestige.
They were part of trail crews that drove more than twenty-seven million Cattle on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, Western Trail, Chisholm Trail and Shawnee Trail.
By the 1870s, twenty-five percent of the over thirty-five thousand Cowboys in the West were black.
In 1866, the new Goodnight-Loving Trail was crowded with Cattle headed for a government market.
Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove two thousand longhorns across southern Texas blazing a trail to Bosque Redondo in New Mexico.
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
