Roping and riding, driving cattle across the country, one in four cowboys of the Old West was Black – a little-known fact that will be spotlighted Feb. 28 at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. A ...

After the Civil War, freed slaves were able to get jobs as cowboys in the Wild West. Valley 101 shares the story of Black cowboys now and then.

Frontier cowboys, coal miners, buffalo hunters, prostitutes, saloon keepers and lawmen did dangerous, dirty work in the frontier West. Dynamite, ...

Cowboy Carter Chronicle explores a groundbreaking course at the University of Houston that unravels the rich tapestry of Black contributions to the American West ...

The spirit of the Old West was celebrated Saturday during the Day of the Cowboy event honoring cowboy and ranch life in the scenic California chaparral setting at Los Flores Ranch Park. Families ...

The rugged spirit of the American West comes alive in old photos of cowboys and cowgirls who called the open range home. Long before Hollywood glamorized ranching and turned cowboys into legends, ...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- As the cowboy slowly rides off, he turns to the crowd of onlookers and waves goodbye. It was the end of another day's work for the Texan, guiding a herd of longhorn cattle along a ...

When did the Old West truly begin, and when did it finally come to an end? Some trace the Wild Wests start to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, while others think it was much later, as cowboys started ...

McCoy, the son of the local police chief, grew up in Saginaw, Mich. He was taken to a Wild West show in his youth and was immediately smitten with Old West culture, to the point he bought a one-way ...