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Black in the Wild West

Vincent Jacobs, rodeo rider   Sarfraz Manzoor

"I bet you nine out of 10 people in this country think that cowboys were all white—as I did," says Jim Austin. So he and his wife, Gloria, founded the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum, in Fort Worth, Texas, to put that particular piece of misinformation to rest. In reality, it is now believed, about 25% of cowboys were black: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21768669

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