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Following the Civil War, fully a third of the men who became cowboys were Black. Most of us are familiar with Bill Pickett. But, there were others, like the subject of today’s story, who unfortunately, have faded into obscurity. 
Although the chances are excellent you’ve never heard of Bose Ikard, when we’re though with his story, you’ll discover you knew more about him than you thought. 
Bose Ikard was born a slave in Mississippi. His owner moved to Texas and brought his slaves along with him. As a slave, he learned to farm, ranch and fight Indians. Following the Civil War, as a free man, Bose went to work for cattleman Oliver Loving driving cattle. When Indians killed Loving, Bose went to work for Loving’s partner, Charles Goodnight. 
Charles and Bose became close friends. Goodnight once said of Bose, “I trust him farther than any living man. He was my detective, banker, and everything else in Colorado, New Mexico Territory, and the other wild country I was in.” 
In 1869, Bose Ikard bought him a farm and settled down in Parker Country, Texas, beginning a family. Indian attacks were still taking place, and Bose fought against Quanah Parker, riding with his former slave master. 
After Bose’s death on January 4, 1929, Charlie Goodnight placed a granite marker on his friend’s grave. It said, “Bose Ikard served with me four years on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, never shirked a duty or disobeyed an order, rode with me in many stampedes, participated in three engagements with Comanches, splendid behavior.” 
Earlier, I said you might be more familiar with Bose than you thought. Supposedly, Larry McMurtry’s novel “Lonesome Dove” was loosely based on the lives of Charley Goodnight and Oliver Loving. If so, then the roll played by Danny Glover was surely that of Bose Ikard.

Story complements of Dakota Livsay of Chronicle of the Old West  

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