Black cowboy Bose Ikard dies

Bose Ikard

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1929, Bose Ikard died in Austin. Ikard, born a slave in Mississippi in 1843, became one of the most famous black frontiersmen and trail drivers in Texas.
The Civil War left Bose a free man, and in 1866 he went to work for Oliver Loving as a trail driver.
After Loving's death, Ikard continued in the service of Loving's partner, Charles Goodnight. The two men became lifelong friends.
Goodnight later commented that he trusted Bose Ikard "farther than any living man. He was my detective, banker, and everything else in Colorado, New Mexico, and the other wild country I was in." Continued