Ep 249 The Real Deets: A Black Mark for Splendid Behavior

We’re back in Texas!  For Texas Wool Week, mind you, but that’s not the focus today.  Our topic could be almost anything, because Texas is a place chock full of people filled with fortitude, gracious hospitality, and a reverence for the history they’ve lived in full color.  They take pride in combinations of peoples and cultures like almost no one else does, and their trails and parks and location markers can make a history buff cry tears of joy.

But how do most of us picture that history, when we talk about the old west?  We had a moment of revelation about our own preconceived ideas when we went through the Cowboy Capital of Bandera, dove into the facts behind the story of steadfast Deets in Lonesome Dove, and had a conversation with a man whose face is stamped on a statue at Fort Bliss.  

Taylor Sheridan brought Bass Reeves into the limelight, but way before that, there was a man named Bose Ikard, the dear friend of Charles Goodnight, and a brave cohort of men known as the Buffalo Soldiers.

Links:

 https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/exhibitions/black-cowboys-an-american-story/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Griffin

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ikard-bose

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/bose-ikard-cowboy-lonesome-dove/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rudeness+in+a+man+won%27t+tolerate+it&t=newext&atb=v419-1&ia=web

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cowboy_%26_Western_Heritage_Museum

https://tpwd.texas.gov/education/resources/keep-texas-wild/vaqueros-and-cowboys/texas-cattle-drives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_Dove

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose_Ikard

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/projects/african-american-texas

https://texastimetravel.com/directory/buffalo-soldier-memorial-el-paso/Links: