The Forgotten Cowboys
Client: Modern Huntsman
Services: Photography
Industry: outdoors
Words by: Emilié newman
How much Black history has been hidden, erased, or ignored? There is a rich history about the Black Cowboys that is being kept alive by Larry Callies, owner of the Black Cowboy Museum in Rosenberg, Texas.
We share the story of one man’s relentless journey to preserve the authentic history of The Black Cowboy that illustrates their monumental role in shaping the West.
THEre is an UNTOLD HISTORY OF BLACK COWBOYS IN THE UNITED STATES.
BLACK COWBOYS HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED.
But it’s a compelling view into America’s untold history seen through the eyes of living legend Larry Callies.
texas is the seat of the american concept of “the cowboy,”
…a tradition greatly influenced by Mestizo vaqueros of mixed Spanish, Latin and Indigenous ancestry — a livestock-raising heritage that preceded America and seeded present-day cowboy culture.”
