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A new epic adventure series with a Western setting sure to excite Yellowstone fans is now streaming. The drama, a brainchild ...
In the second half of the 19th century, the figure of the cowboy emerged as the defining feature of American Western literature. Publishers found success with dime Westerns, novels mythologizing ...
A cowboy of Black American and Cherokee descent born in ... Bass Reeves who was born into slavery in Texas in the late 19th century and was known for fighting outlaws with legendary skill while ...
National Anthropological Archives / Smithsonian Institution As a scholar of 19th-century American photography, I’ve looked at countless old photographs: the carefully labeled portraits of the ...