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Black Cowboys

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  • Zaron Burnett’s dad didn’t want slavery to be his son’s only image of Black people in American history. So every night, he filled Zaron’s dreams with these incredible stories of Black cowboys. Despite what Hollywood taught us, one-in-four cowboys were Black. Their stories tell a bigger, braver, more honest history of America.
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  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mark Twain

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mark Twain
    Jun 28 2024

    A bar fight and a stint on the lam transformed Samuel Clemens into Mark Twain — and changed the course of American literature. Settle in for Mark Twain's origin story.

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    Hosted by Dana Schwartz, Zaron Burnett, Jason English
    Written by Zaron Burnett
    Produced by Josh Fisher
    Editing and Sound Design: Jonathan Washington and Josh Fisher
    Mixing and Mastering: Baheed Frazier
    Story Editor: Marisa Brown
    Research and Fact-Checking: Austin Thompson and Zaron Burnett
    Voice Actors: Frank Nemec, Zack Nemec, Elizabeth Dutton, and Jonathan Washington
    Original Music by Elise McCoy
    Show Logo by Lucy Quintanilla
    Executive Producer: Jason English

    Special thanks to Bob Hirst from the Mark Twain Archive at UC Berkeley, and Joseph Amster from Emperor Norton's Fantastic San Francisco Time Machine.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Chapter 9: Cinematic Black Cowboys

    Chapter 9: Cinematic Black Cowboys
    May 14 2021

    Zaron grew up watching Westerns with Pop, and together they explore the history of Black cowboys on the big screen.

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    48 mins
  • Chapter 8: Panhandle Slim

    Chapter 8: Panhandle Slim
    May 6 2021

    When a young white college kid named Patrick meets up with a singing Black cowboy named Panhandle Slim, a whole world is revealed through Slim's intimate "story songs."

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    31 mins
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Empowering

Thank you for this. I'm a Cowboy, a Black Man, Father, and Long Haul Trucker. My Great Grandfather owned a horse ranch in Montana, and he raised my Grandfather on it until it was taken from them. I was raised by my Mother in the Cowboy Way, and sometimes I let my people make me feel less Black because of my way, but this History reinforces my upbringing, and gives me real confidence in who I am. Thank you for telling our story.

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LOVING THIS PODCAST!

i love the storytelling and i really love his Dad's contributions! i have been interested in learning more about Black Cowboys and this podcast is a great start - i just want to hear/read more about them.
my only "complaint" is how the narrator/podcaster's viewpoints kinda shade some of the story or even the cowboy's own account. i understand we can't help it sometimes, but history tells itself. and we can't put our modern perspective on it without taking away from the story.
still- all in all, i could tell from all these episodes, there was real interest and love for Black Cowboys and Black History. that is awesome and much needed!

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