On Nov 19, 1:05 am, (Don Pearce) wrote:
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:41:12 -0600, "Neil Larson"

wrote:
Wow, so you just as completly backwards from the original poster. "The huge
majority of cowboys were black or Chinese"? what history book did you read?
There were too many racisits for this to be even remotly true.

When you are hiring manual labour you go for the cheapest. It is true
today and it was true then. Racism could go hang when you were
counting the dollars.

http://www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/border...ck_cowboys.htm

Per this El Paso site, it's believed that perhaps 25% of cowboys may
have been black.

Chinese cowboys seem to have existed only in your imagination.

Cites to the contrary much appreciated.