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Author Daniel Gibson and photographer Kitty Leaken showcase the talents of Red Star in this collection of artwork while also exploring his life and artistic development

and an imposing lion is oblivious to the diminutive monarch butterfly that shares its epithet

Accompanied by his wife

Travis was one of the few African- Americans present at the battle

Black Cowboys of Texas Texas as well as an OIn the early days of Texas, the work of the cowhand was essential to the newly arrived settlers building a life on the frontier. The story of the Anglo cowboys who worked the ranches of Texas is well known, but much more remains to be discovered about the African American cowhands who worked side by side with the vaqueros and Anglo cowboys. The cowboy learned his craft from the vaqueros of New Spain and Texas when it was the northern territory of