Short Stuff: Black Cowboys

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Most people don't realize that around a quarter of the cowboys found in the Old West during the golden age cattle driving were African American. Let's meet some of them, shall we?

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:34.7	Hey and welcome to this short stuff.
0:36.4	I'm Josh and there's Chuck.
0:38.2	Who knows where Jerry is, but this is short stuff so it doesn't matter.
0:41.7	Because we can handle it ourselves with a little assist by our friend Dave Kustan.
0:46.4	Yeah.
0:47.4	I don't think we don't shout out Dave enough.
0:49.8	Not nearly enough.
0:51.4	As a matter of fact, let's just make this episode us talking about how great Dave is.
0:55.4	Right.
0:56.4	The original Black Cowboy.
0:58.2	That's right.
0:59.7	But totally wrong.
1:01.2	But it was a decent attempt at a segue.
1:04.3	Yeah.
1:05.3	Yeah.
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