ey were referred to as exoddist, the word from the book in the bible. most recently, i bought a fwrook the university of oklahoma press which was just published on the town in kansas. and this is now a state park in kansas. this is one of the many all-black communities that were formed as they try to find a new life of freedom and a place in the american west. if you watched the cowboys movies or if you watched the cowboy programs, 100%, almost 00% of the cowboys are anglos. in fact, over 30% of the cowboys in the west were either african-american, hispanic-american and even native-american. out here east of fresno, east of -- joining community in clovis, they hired many native-americans to run their sheep and cattle. so this is something that you don't see in the cowboys movies. but there were black cowboys and this book, "black cowboys of the that period.vers and when you see many of these cowboys, they look just like, dress like were like -- did everything that their white counterparts did. but not only were they cowboys, they were martials and lawme