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This is a picture of a cowboy while he is rounding up cattle this picture is from 1885.

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• Nat Love was born a slave on a tobacco plantation in 1854.

• Nat won a raffle to receive a horse and he sold it for 100$, he gave half of it to his mom and he took the rest to start his life of adventure in the West.

•While searching for cattle Native Americans attacked him and Nat woke up in an Indian camp. The Native Americans decided to make him a member of their tribe. But Nat wanted to be free so once he got the Natives trust he stayed up late one night and snuck out of the camp with one of the Natives best horse.

• Nat entered a cowboy contest and every time you caught cattle you would get 200$.

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" I eventually brought up at Doge City Kansas, which at that time was a typical frontier city, with a great many saloons, dance halls, and gambling houses, and very little off anything else." - The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

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" I eventually brought up at Doge City Kansas, which at that time was a typical frontier city, with a great many saloons, dance halls, and gambling houses, and very little off anything else." - The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

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Nat Love's experience from being a former slave shaped him to want adventure and one of the best cattle drivers.

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Nat Love's experience from being a former slave shaped him to want adventure and one of the best cattle drivers.

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• Nat helped settle the West by spending long days on the plains driving lots of cattle to the market. He was also perceived as a cowboy who was honorable. Nat Love was able to do these things because unlike the movies and the stereotypes that African Americans could not be cowboys was not true. nat was quite confident and a strong leader he always was up for a challenge or an adventure.
• Nat Love risked everything he had to become a cowboy. he became a cowboy because he wanted to do something where he was judged by his skills not his skin.
• Nat Love should be honored because he played a big role in westward expansion he is a well respected former slave cowboy. While growing up Nat did not have much but he learned how to make the most out of what he had but he had always longed for adventure. Despite the challenges of being a cowboy Nat stuck through it and he was one of many other cowboys that helped the civilization of westward Expansion and the new changes and innovations happening then.
• Nat was great at reading cattle branding.

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This is a photograph of a cowboy near cattle taken in 1902. 

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This photograph is of Nat Love it was taken in 1907.

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Born a slave, Nat Love escaped post civil war poverty to be in the West where he became a respected well known cowboy.

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Born a slave, Nat Love escaped post civil war poverty to be in the West where he became a respected well known cowboy.

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• After the Civil war life was difficult as a freedman because they had no money and no opportunities.
• Nat had never experienced freedom and when he was a cowboy it did not matter what you looked like or what you believed in, it only mattered how hard you worked and the amount of work you put in.

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Why Nat Love should be honored in a museum.  

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Why Nat Love should be honored in a museum.  

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Over all Nat love was an amazing example in how when you are a cowboy it does not matter what you look like it matters the amount of work you put into being a cowboy.
He should be honored in a museum because he is a great role model to show that no matter what you look like your personality describes who you are.

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This is an image of cattle and a cowboy taken in 1905.