The best estimate is 35,000 cowboys working the drives and ranches in the post Civil War era. The most generous estimate that cannot really be proven is of that number-7,000 were black and mixed black race. I went to public school, but I don't believe those numbers add up to 3 out of 10 or 33.3%. 5% at best and that number seems unusually high given historical data indicates the black population in the western US during the era of cattle drives was about 1%. The myth of the prevalence of the "black" cowboy is just more BS revisionist history. But hey-anything is possible since Whitey has covered up that blacks were indispensable in every major historical event and achievement of man since Adam and Eve. Eve was black don't cha know just like half of all couples depicted in modern TV commercials.
I went to public school too. But mine taught math. I have no idea if your numbers of participants are correct, but 35÷7=5 and 1/5=20%. Still not 33%, but a far cry from 5%.
Here's a blurb from wikipedia that puts the number of black cowboys at about 25%.
Black cowboys in the American West accounted for up to 25 percent of workers in the range-cattle industry from the 1860s to 1880s, estimated to be between 6,000 and 9,000 workers.[1][2] Typically former slaves or born into the families of former slaves, many black men had skills in cattle handling and headed West at the end of the Civil War.[3] Though the industry generally treated black men equally to white men in terms of pay and responsibilities, discrimination persisted, though to a lesser extent than in other industries of the time.[1]
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
My wife and I watched that old fart,Harrison Ford,on Jimmy Kimmel.The old adage about actors certainly applies to this moron.When they don't have a script from which to read,they prove themselves to be dumber than a bucket of hair.
My God was he stupid.
Communist Goals
26. Present homosexuality and degeneracy as normal. 27. Discredit the Bible. 28. Eliminate prayer in the schools.
If you pick a group of actors at random and read through their credentials, you'll find that most of them majored in theater or something similar if they have any advanced education at all. Very few of them have any kind of education in the real world. It's all make believe. The make believe carries over into their vision of real life and badly distorts it. They're simply out of touch with the real world.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
Does HF get murdered by Indians at the end, and does Buck kill a bunch of them for revenge?
Not Indians. An evil white man is the murderer. Cartoon Buck kills him then runs off with a pack of wolves and lives happily ever after.
At least they gave Harrison a cool-looking old lever action he sensibly packed into the bush, which he does pack when saving Buck's life. I'd have to see it again to see how authentic and period-correct that rifle is.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
The dog used in the movie was a stray found in Emporia Ks, after the shooting had started. Ford had been acting with a human on green screen they then "dubed" the dog in. From the news article on KWCH in Wichita. EMPORIA, Kan. (WIBW)
It was a match made in the movies! An Emporia dog is starring alongside famous Hollywood actor Harrison Ford in the new movie, “Call of the Wild.”
The movie is based off the book “Call of the Wild,” published in 1903. The staring animal in the movie is named Buck.
According to the movie bio, “Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life gets turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon in the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail-delivery dog sled team, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime as he ultimately finds his true place in the world.”
Producers were looking for a dog like the one in the book which was a cross between a farm collie-type dog and a St. Bernard.
When they went looking for the right dog, they came across Buckley at the Emporia Animal Shelter.
“Buckley was found as a stray, so he was wondering the streets of Emporia, Kansas. He was a good 30 pounds underweight. You know, he’d been there for three weeks, so I can only imagine how emaciated he must’ve been when he was first picked up,” said Jessica Steele-Sanders, the wife of the movies director, Chris Sanders.
When Steele-Sanders was looking for the right dog, she said the dog in the book and Buckley were an exact match.
Steele-Sanders said Buckley is a classic rags-to-riches story.
The Sanders’ family enjoyed working with Buckley so much, they adopted him.
"Call of the Wild" hits movie theaters on February 21.
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"Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War."
After he opened his mouth a while back, I'll never see it.
^^ This.^^
I have liked Harrison Ford's acting ever since he shot the big sword man in the first Raiders, and wanted to see Jack London's book on the screen, but when Ford ran his mouth recently I decided he would not get one cent of ticket sale nor rental percentage from me.
Thanks for the review, Birdy. Didn't think I was missing much to skip the movie, and you confirmed that.
Any Jack London story could not be told today in his own words. The harsh realities of life and the day to day struggles in those environs does not fit the 21st century agenda. People dying because they are stupid will not be tolerated.
Sadly that’s true. One of the great things about London’s work is how it teaches a yini reader that there are consequences for decisions and how stupidity often kills
Wife wants to see this one, she loves any movie that includes a dog in its storyline, TOGO is another that she wants to see.
Wasn't aware of this, looks better, hope it comes to the big screen, only way I can do Netflix is on a 4 1/2" iphone screen...
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
Our resident liberal complaining about falsifying history to make it diverse?
Resident liberal? I vote pro-life pro-gun and pro environment in that order and believe every individual should be equal under the law, free to pursue excellence and rated upon their own personal merits, if that makes me a Liberal so be it.
Anyways, while I’m complaining about the movie I might as well observe that it bothered me that the Black guy, who gets about as much screen time as Harrison Ford, Is kindly, wise and comical, and lives in a tent with his generically indigenous girlfriend, hardly the message I would want to convey to the kids at home this movie is aimed.
They are even shown sharing a bed albeit fully dressed
You sure were enthralled with AOC. Weird when men embrace emotional based thinking
