Will the Real West Please Stand Up?! The exciting adventures of Black cowboys, pioneers, soldiers, and other frontiersmen join the celebrated folklore of the wild West in the Reflections of a Black Cowboy series. Through colorful, masterfully shares stories of important real life heroes-men and women whose bravery and adventurous spirits helped make the American West possible. Cowboys introduces figures such as Nat Love, a freed slave-turned teenage cowboy who became Deadwood Dick-champion roper of the western cattle country; Bill Pickett, the inventor of the rodeo sport of steer wrestling, and Mary Fields, who spent 50 years as a slave, then found a new life as a Western crime fighter.