Cowboy G with Cookie at the Oakland City Stables
For the past 35 years, the first weekend of October has brought something unusual to the streets of West Oakland. Cowboys, on horseback, riding through the streets. But, they’re not your typical Hollywood cowboys. Dressed in bright yellow western shirts and black Stetson hats, they are the members of the Oakland Black Cowboy Association. They come out each year with their horses, and a pony named Michael Jackson, to tell a hidden history of the West.
I spent a day with the cowboys at the Oakland City Stables, and did this story for KALW public radio in San Francisco.
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