recently i bought a book from the university of oklahoma which was just published on the town of nicodemus inkansas . and this is now a state park in kansas. this was one of the many all-black communities as they tried to find a new life of freedom in a place in the american west. if you watched the cowboy movies or if you watched cowboy programs, 100 percent, almost 100 percent of the cowboys are anglos. in fact, over 30 percent of cowboys in the west were either african-american, hispanic american and even native american. in fact, out here east of fresno, east of clovis, the blazing game ranch they hired many native americans to run their sheep and cattle so this is something that you don't see in the cowboy movies. but there were black cowboys and this book, black cowboys of the old west covers that period and when you see many of these cowboys , they look just like everything their white counterparts did but not only were they cowboys, they were marshals and lawmen. for example, this is a biography of vast reeves who was a famous marshall in the indian territory under the famous judge parker,