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3rdeyeblaque · 11 months

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Today we venerate Ancestor Nat Love aka Red River Dick aka Deadwood Dick on the day that we recognize his169th birthday 🎉

A permanent fixture of the American West, Nat Love led the life of legends & became a hero to the peoples of the TX, AZ, TN, & Dakotas territories.

Nat Love was born enslaved with his family in Davidson County Tennessee in 1856. He was raised in a log cabin during the turbulent years of the Civil War & its transition into the Reconstruction Era; where his father taught him how to read & write - a rarity of the time. After the Civil War, Nat & his father worked on the plantation farm as sharecroppers until his death shortly thereafter.

Nat Love's superior talent of breaking horses swept him off to the American West. He worked as a cattle/horse-driver throughout the Texas Panhandle, Kansas, Arizona Territory & the Dakota Territory. Here, his exploits began - with him fighting off cattle thieves who trained as marksmen. His journey led him to cross paths with local western legends in Arizona where he earned the title of "Deadwood Dick" after competing as a rodeo contestant in Deadwood, South Dakota & winning countless competitions in throwing, roping, tying, bridling, saddling, & bronco riding.

Nat Love later released his autobiography entitled, "The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as “Deadwood Dick.”, in which he shared his exploits as a legendary cowboy & star rodeo performer. How he had once endured extensive bullet wounds in a fight & was captured by Pima Indians, nursed back to health, then welcomed by Chief Yellow Dog into tribe & later betrothed to Chief's daughter until he escaped on a stolen pony & road back out into West Texas. He recounted how he earned the nickname, “Deadwood Dick” along with the love/respect of the good citizens of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. And how he met legendary cowboys like, “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Since there are no records of the cattlemen that claimed to have worked with/for, no one will ever know how fact or fictional the wildly outrageous accounts of Nat Love truly were. Yet and still, he'll always remain a undying fixture of the American West post-Maafa.

"Mounted on my favorite horse, my… lariat near my hand, and my trusty guns in my belt… I felt I could defy the world. — from "The Life and Adventures of Nat Love"

We pour libations & give him💐 today as we celebrate him for his unbridled courage & asserting our rightful place among the true cowboys/gals of the wild wild west.

Offering suggestions: cowboy caviar, libations of whiskey, & read/share his autobiography

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mygospelsoulmagazine · 5 months

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Cowboy Came from....

“Black men were called Cowboy because Black men were called boy. Whites were called Cattlemen until the term Cowboy became popular. All of a sudden they were the Cowboys. There’s always a background to HIStory.” blkrosebooks.com Click below for more information… Nat Love aka Deadwood Dick

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taytayb1993 · 4 years

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Black History in the American Old West

Howdy, followers. Today, I’m going to show you these old pictures of African Americans in the American Old West, also featuring photos of famous and legendary Black figures that I considered them as legends of the American western history.

I’m going to be honest with you all as I’m going to give prosperous facts; African American were and still are cowboys and cowgirls. We already had these skills of saddling, cattle ranching, farming, agriculture, and riding horses, back in the ancient times in Northern/Western Africa before Christ, Islam, and colonization. It was an golden age back than.

Bill Pickett (1871-1932), rodeo performer.

Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick (1854-1921), cowboy and saddler.

Jesse Stahl (1879-1935), cowboy and rodeo star.

John Ware (1845?-1905), rancher, saddler, and cowboy.

James Pierson Beckwourth (1805-1866), mountain man, fur trader, scout, and explorer.

Isom Dart (Ned Huddleston) (1849-1900), cowboy, criminal, and outlaw.

Bass Reeves (1838-1910), lawman and deputy U.S. marshal

George Fletcher (1890-1973), rodeo star and cowboy.

George Glenn (1850–1931), cowboy.

Dangerfield Newby (1815-1859), freedom fighter and rebellion.

Mary Fields (1832-1914), mail courier.

Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), freedom fighter, slave rebellion, scout, spy, nurse, and guerrilla soldier.

John Horse (1812–1882), slave rebellion and freedom fighter.

Now, here are old pictures of black people in the old American west.

This is John Ware and his wife and kids.

That’s Bass Reeves.

Bill Pickett’s family members.

This is Harriet Tubman in her previous age.

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist and human right activist.

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backatthechickenshack · 4 years

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Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick (1854-1921), cowboy, saddler,

sharpshooter, author. His auto-bio is available online.

I am friends with his great grandson and namesake.

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7whistlepig7 · 4 years

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The Greatest Black Cowboy

Deadwood Dick AKA Red River Dick AKA Nat Love was born a slave in 1854 on a Tennessee plantation. After the war, he moved to Dodge City and became a cowboy. He won rodeos and was even adopted into the Pima Tribe. His adventurous life is largely unverified (normal for the Old West). In 1907 he published his memoir, The life and Adventures of Nat Love. He died in 1921—perhaps his title should just…

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hampscornerofamerica · 4 years

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Black Legends of the Wild, Wild West, Part 4, #BHM

Black Legends of the Wild, Wild West, Part 4

This is the fourth and final article of a Four-Part Series on Black Folks, who helped to tame the West. First, we looked at US Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves, followed by Mary Fields, aka Stagecoach Mary. Then James Pierson Beckwourth, American Mountain Man, and our final legend from the old West is Nat (pronounced Nate) Love, aka Deadwood Dick and a few others.

If I told you that it was reasonable…

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nova0000scotia · 4 years

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From #Canada with love - AWESOME SHARE.... .baddest black cowboy EV-R -Nat “Deadwood Dick” Love-Greatest Black Cowboy in Old West ARTICLE : http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-natlove.html

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taytayb1993 · 4 years

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Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick, was considered the greatest black cowboy in the Old West. He was born as a slave in 1854 in Davidson County, Tennessee on the plantation owned by Robert Love. Nat's father was a slave foreman on the plantation and mother worked in the kitchen in the big house. Nat Love was looked after by an older sister when he was young, but she had kitchen duties, so Nat looked after himself.

Despite that he had no formal education, with the help from his father, Nat learned how to read and write. After the Civil War, when the slaves were freed, Nat’s father worked a small farm that he rented from his former master, Robert Love. Nat's father died a few years later. Nat Love took various jobs on the plantation areas to help support his family and found that he had great skill in breaking horses.

In 1869, Nat left his family in his uncle's care and headed west. When he arrived in Dodge City, Kansas he ran into a crew of the Texas Duval Ranch. The cowboys were having breakfast when Nat joined them. Nat asked for job there and the trail boss agreed if he could break a horse named Good Eye, which he did as he stated it was the toughest ride he'd ever had. He got a job at the Duval Ranch at $30 a month.

As a age of 16, Nat adapted into the life of a cowboy, showing excellent skills as a ranch hand and practiced so often with a .45 revolver that his shooting skills also became very good. He earned a reputation as one of the best cowboys in the Duval outfit. Nat soon became a buyer and their chief brand reader. He was sent to Mexico on several occasion where he learned how to speak fluent Spanish.

After three years with the Duval Outfit, Nat moved to Arizona in 1872, where he went to work for the Gallinger Ranch on the Gila River. He traveled many of the western trails there, and sometimes working in dangerous situations in Indian battles and fighting off rustlers bandits. During these years as an cowboy in Arizona, Nat was refereed to as Red River Dick and claimed to have met many of famous men of the West including Pat Garrett, Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid.

In 1876, the Gallinger cowboys were sent to deliver a herd of three thousand steers to Deadwood, South Dakota. When the crew arrived on July 3rd, the locals were busy preparing for the 4th of July celebration. There were numerous organized events included a cowboy contest with a $200 cash prize to the winner. The contestants competed in roping bridling, saddling, and shooting. Winning every competition, Nat won with $200 prize and a nickname of "Deadwood Dick".

Nat continued to work as a cowboy in the southwest for another 15 years before he began to settle down and got married in 1889. In the next year he took a job in Denver, Colorado as a Pullman porter on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Nat worked on the routes west of Denver and moved his family several times to Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada until he finally settling down in southern California. In 1907, Nat Love published his autobiography, "The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as Deadwood Dick".

Nat's last job was working as a courier for the General Securities Company in Los Angeles, California, where he passed away in 1921.

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