ART & HISTORY – February 2021

Photo from the Jim Krantz Exhibition “The Way of the West” in Los Angeles. Source

Los Angeles: JIM KRANTZ EXHIBITION | THE WAY OF THE WEST. Flaunt

Horse remains reveal new insights into how Native peoples raised horses. Science Daily

PBR partners with longest-touring African American rodeo. Montana Sports

Bill Pickett, the first Black athlete in the Rodeo Hall of Fame, invented bulldogging and starred in several silent films including the 1921 ‘The Bull-Dogger.’ Source

From Texas to Oklahoma, Bill Pickett paved the way for future Black cowboys. KCEN-TV

How Black Americans helped shape the American West. The Gazette

In decades after Civil War, promise of West lured Black homesteaders. Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Zitkala-Ša (Red Bird/Gertrude Simmons Bonin) with her violin. Photo by Gertrude Kasebier, 1898. Smithsonian Institution.

Honoring Native American activist, writer, and musician Zitkala-Ša. Read about her at Native American Writers.

From the real Calamity Jane to ‘Madam Moustache’: pioneer women of the Wild West. History Extra

OKLAHOMA: The Smithsonian is coming to Oklahoma. Tahlequah Daily Press

TEXAS: Cowgirl Museum’s new art collection shows women’s contributions to the American West. Star-Telegram

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