page 21: "A man everybody called Nigger Jim Perry was the lone black cow puncher on the XIT. "If it weren't for this old black face of mine," said Perry, "I'd be foreman."
Again..."everybody" seems a little extreme.
From the January 1996 Lest We Forget: Jim Perry was an all-around cowboy, cook and fiddler who worked on the XIT ranch. He once remarked: “If it weren’t for my damned old black face I’d have been boss of one of these divisions long ago.”
Kind of surprising that he was the only black cowboy that worked on the XIT. Black cowboys were not a rarity in Texas in other ranches at the time period.
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