When Nat Love was born into slavery in Tennessee, his family worked on a tobacco plantation. He longed to see the world and soon became a talented horse rider.

When Nat Love was born into slavery in Tennessee, his family worked on a tobacco plantation. But he longed to see the world and soon became a talented horse rid

Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson

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Offers twenty-four essays about African American men and women who worked in the Texas cattle industry from the slave days of the mid-19th century through the e