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There are certain conceptions of cowboys. Many of these conceptions such as their clothes, their beliefs, their style of speaking and their race are known by all people, but is it the honest truth. However , the one thing that you never really hear, is that a wide range of cowboys were and still are Black, Native American and Mexican. I know what you're thinking, you there probably were minority cowboys, about a couple hundred or so. Well that is partially true nowadays, but the whites were actually the minority when it came to being a cowboy in the Wild West around the 1800' s. It's true Blacks, Indians and Mexicans made up the majority our beloved cowboys. To be precise the white cowboys made up 1/3 of the cowboy population. So that leaves the other 2/3 of the population to the colored people. Even though they make up such a big chunk of this group, it is uncommon, yet almost impossible to find them in any movies taking any glory. Why is this so? Well even though we live in a multicultural society, our fathers fathers as we all know lived in a time of mass racism that was growing between all the different race groups in America. Most writers and photographers only took picture