The Prairie View Trail Riders started out as a group of men with a deep appreciation of Black Cowboys history and presence in the state of Texas. The other nine Trail Rider groups as created in various parts of Texas and come together every February to the Houston Rodeo and showcase their talents.
Link to view presentation on the History of the Prairie View Trail Riders Association: https://www.canva.com/design/DAF2UxmjiNI/l7xvtP0Wjsx1JXYPtSObBA/view?utm_content=DAF2UxmjiNI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor
Prairie View Trail Ride (1989)
Prairie View Trail Riders journey to Houston (2019)
Live look at the Prairie View trail riders heading into Houston (2023)
THE BLACK HISTORY OF COWBOYS AND COWBOY MUSIC
African-American Cowboy: The Forgotten Man of the West" Documentary about Black Cowboys (2013)
Black Cowboys: A Campfire Conversation ~ 4/14/22, Witte Museum (2022)
The purpose of the Prairie View Trail Riders Association uplifts agricultural minded people, both active and retired; and to promote agriculture interests, and young Americans, and to perpetuate those principles which have come to be regarded as the ideals and traditions of the Western World; And to participate in such undertakings as may be deemed to make for the happiness, well-being, and usefulness of the membership, and for the progress of the association.
Source: Momodu, Samuel. (2022). BLACK COWBOYS IN THE 19TH CENTURY WEST (1850-1900). BlackPast.org. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/concepts-african-american-history/black-cowboys-in-the-19th-century-west-1850-1900/#:~:text=Over%20the%20decades%20the%20cattle,Texas%20in%20the%20early%201850s.
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