Morgan Freeman in Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood?

[flobadob]

Why was he the only black man in it? Were there black cowboys?

[puternut]

Have you ever watched 'Blazing Saddles' ???

Sorry couldnt resist 8-)

[dotty.]

yes there were, watch Bonanza FGS

[Clanad]

Bill Pickett was one of the more famous black cowboys (there were many). In the mid- 1880's he invented the art of bulldogging, later to be introduced into rodeo as an event (better known as steer wrestling).

Pickett did it with a twist though... as his horse carried him along side of the running steer, he slid off and onto the neck of the steer, holding the horns and twisting the steers head up, Pickett bit into the upper lip of the steer with his teeth and then twisted the steer to the ground using the leverage of its horns.
The event today is essentially the same with the exception of the lip biting...

[carlton23]

EEEeeeyuk to that.

[jno]

sure, thousands

http://www.vincelewis.net/blackcowboys.html

As with white cowboys, they were people at a loose end after the Civil War - many of them freed slaves.