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This is the name given to African Americans - such as Nat Love and Isom Dart - who ventured into the frontier following the Civil War, working on and running ranches and leading cattle drives.

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Black Cowboys

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Nat Love is one of the most popular black cowboys who lived between 1854 and 1921. He spent most of his life as a cowboy in the Western part of the United States.He wrote a memoir on his life as a cowboy.

Isom Dart lived between 1849 and 1900.His original name was Ned Huddleston. Although a cowboy,he became a notorious thief who stole cattle and horses. He had a bad reputation and he was shot by a bounty hunter who had been contracted by ranchers who lost their cattle and horses to him.

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