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However, situated between the icons and Hollywood personae are countless others whose contributions to the American West and the U.S. There were things I recognized, such as photos of legendary Black cowboys Nat Love and William "Bill" Pickett and a poster for the Netflix film Concrete Cowboy starring Idris Elba, his pearly smile beaming underneath a white Stetson hat.

Walking into the Witte Museum exhibition “Black Cowboys: An American Story” in San Antonio, Texas, I was surrounded by the faces and stories of Black men, women, and children - some enslaved, some free - who were an integral part of ranching and the cattle drives in Texas long before the Civil War and throughout the turn of the 20th century.