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...NEGRO COWBOYS, by Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones. Despite endless writings about the Old West, scholarly historians and pulp novelists alike have ignored the fact that Negro cowboys rode in most of the drives from Texas to the cattle markets, and were respected, liked, and paid on a basis of wits and skill rather than color. An overdue addition to Americana...
...they were either failing or were at least a grade behind in reading. In fact, 80 of the boys were 31 grades behind. They come from such varied backgrounds as affluent suburbs, private schools, impoverished rural or mountain areas, and Negro slum areas in such cities as Charlotte and Durham (20% of the class is Negro...
Legend & History. Durham and Jones tell their tales well. One of the most fascinating stories concerns a Negro named Bob Lemmons. Bob was one of a tough group of men who made their living capturing wild mustangs, but Bob's method was unique. He would follow a herd of mustangs alone for days, until they began to accept him as part of the group: "I acted like I was a mustang. I made the mustangs think I was one of them." When the herd was completely in his control, Bob slowly led them straight into the waiting corral...
...dared change a good thing. But by that time, the West was mostly legend, and the values of legend tend to black-and-white good guys and bad guys, and permit of little shading. As legend, the oldtime cowboy will go on looking like Tom Mix. History, thanks to Durham and Jones, has acquired new shadings...
...nationalization bill that they hope to bring before the House of Commons next month, Sir Julian Pode, president of the British Iron & Steel Foundation, charged that a takeover "cannot fail to harm" the industry. Nationalization would mean "disaster for the country," warned B. Chetwynd Talbot, chairman of the South Durham Steel & Iron Co., Ltd. And Alan James Peech, chairman of United Steel Companies, Britain's biggest steel company, moved on to the next big question: What compensation should the government pay if steel is nationalized? If Labor bases its offer on recent stock prices of the firms, said Peech...