and the fulani would move the cattle up along streams and creeks and rivers, again to the hill area,when -- began flowering ... and the grass was growing etc, and there was a lot of forage, and they would take care of the cattle, and when the city heal weather changed, and the green grass became around, they would bring the cattle back down and give them back to their original owners the increase, cattle that were borne along the way -- that continue to gain for quite awhile. some of the blacks were taken from west africa and came from this cattle raising tradition. we owe a great deal of black cowboy knowledge from research by people like terry jordan and his north american cattle ranching frontiers origins, diffusion,'s and differences. other scholars like andrew skyler who wrote black ranching, african cattle on the atlantic coast, 1500 to 1900, who connected the old world with the new, both authors promoted the idea that the presence of africans was an important aspect of cattle raising here in the united states. this is the image by richard, he gave the image for a black past we