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His­toric ear­ly pho­to­graph of cow­boys, show­ing how lit­tle they resem­bled their rep­re­sen­ta­tion in movies and tele­vi­sion. Many cow­boys were Black. It was a low-wage, low-sta­tus pro­fes­sion. Authen­tic peri­od Cow­boy Bal­lads sing of lone­li­ness and their out­cast sta­tus: “My Church is the sky, where I wor­ship alone…My par­son­’s a wolf on his pul­pit of bones.”