Historians estimate that one in four cowboys were African American, though you’d never guess because the conventional Hollywood image of a cowboy is a white man.
Black cowboys have been written out of history, along with the original cattle-raising Native Americans and Mexican vaqueros who taught them.
So what are the real origins of cowboy culture in the US?
Josh Toussaint-Strauss talks to some of the Black riders who are keeping the history of Black cowboy culture alive