Blacks in Wild West: History

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沙夫拉兹•曼佐尔, 记者来鸿：银幕上的第一个黑人牛仔. BBC Chinese, Mar 29, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _black_cowboy.shtml

, which is translated from

Sarfraz Manzoor, America's Forgotten Black Cowboys. BBC, Mar 22, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21768669
("the Hollywood portrayal of the Wild West is a whitewashed version of the reality. It is thought that about a quarter of all cowboys were black")

Note:
(a) Django Unchained
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Unchained
(an 2012 film)

(b) The English, French, and German surname Austin is "a vernacular form of Latin Augustinus, a derivative of Augustus. This was an extremely common personal name in every part of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, owing its popularity chiefly to St Augustine of Hippo [under Roman rule in the present-day Algeria] (354–430), whose influence on Christianity is generally considered to be second only to that of St Paul."
Dictionary of American Family Names. By Oxford University Press.

(c) The English surname Pickett is ultimately from "a pet form of Pic" which is "derived from the root ‘sharp’, ‘pointed.’"  (Think "pike" as a weapon.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_(weapon)
(d) For bulldogging ("a technique where he would jump from a horse on to a steer and take the animal down by biting on its lip"), see Steer wrestling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steer_wrestling

Unlike BBC, The Wiki page does not mention "lip."
(e) Lone Ranger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Ranger
(f) The article says, "The 1956 John Ford film The Searchers, based on Alan Le May's novel, was partly inspired by the exploits of Brit Johnson, a black cowboy whose wife and children were captured by the Comanches in 1865."
(i) The Searchers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Searchers_(film)
(section 4 Historical background)
(ii) Comanche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche
(iii) Comanche (n; American Spanish; plural  Comanche or Comanches)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comanche