Nate LoveNate Love was a slave, cowboy, rodeo performer, pullman porter, author.
Xavier Carnegie an actor and a director for National Museum of America in D.C. Portrays Nate Love to educated people on Black Cowboys. He does it through songs, stories, and reminiscences from Love's life.
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Deadwood DickYou cannot talk about African American cowboys or pioneer without mentioning Nate Love, an iconic figure that made his own path in the 1800’s. Nate Love was born as a slave in 1854 to Robert Love a plantation owner in Davidson County, Tennessee. Growing up Nate Love was a farm boy until his father Sampson Love sadly passed leaving Nate to provide for the family which lead him to working dead end jobs trying to make ends meet. Only at the age of fifteen Nate left his home in a search for a better pay leading him to the frontier. There is where he emerge into this legendary cowboy we now know today. With his pen and paper Nate began writing his adventurous life story in detail, from being captured by Indians and escaping to being shot fifteen times in vital body parts. Nate Love beat all odds and obstacles for an African American at the time. Nate Love was a cowboy, slave, rodeo performer, pullman porter, author a true pioneer. He was a true inspiration to African Americans at the time from his dazzling performances at rodeos to his real daring lifestyle full of danger. The first documented African American cowboy that Black kids looked up to at the time. Love was a very smart man that did not let slavery marginalized him as a person, he reach for his full potential. Through his cattle years Nate picked up Spanish and became fluent, a skill that helped him trade cattle when he travel to Mexico. Among all the other pioneers Nate Love is the most iconic, solely due to his writing skill which he used to document his entire life then later published it in 1907 called, “The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," .
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Love, Nate. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick". Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
Love, Nat. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country As "deadwood Dick". Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Print.
Love, Nat. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country As "deadwood Dick". Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Print.