from www.natlove.com

Love was a Real Cowboy

Nat Love was a Black cowboy in the Old West. Born a slave in Davidson County, Tenn., in 1854, Love was better known as “Deadwood Dick.” He worked in cattle drives from the western United States to Mexico for 20 years.

Love left home at 15 and went to work as a cowboy near Dodge City, Kan.
His autobiography, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as Deadwood Dick (1907), has many cowboy tales about such famous western characters as Bat Masterson, Billy the Kid, Buffalo Bill and Jesse James.

Love died in 1921.

Black History Blogger Bob Jackson

Bob Jackson starts blogging on SpectrumTalk about great African Americans during Black History Month. Jackson, a Chicago native, is a retired staff writer and columnist for the Rocky Mountain News, where he worked for 22 years, starting in 1982. He wrote the column CITYSCAPE, and specializes in writing about ethnic minority affairs.