The 1st American cowboys may have been enslaved Africans, DNA evidence suggests
When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . Some of the first cowboys in the Americas may have been enslave Africans , who helped cattle ranches there thrive thanks to the herding practice they brought with them , a new study of cattle castanets and tooth suggest . oxen did not live in the Americas prior to the 1492 comer of Christopher Columbus , who brought the animals with him when he established a Spanish colony on Hispaniola , the large Caribbean island that includes Haiti and the Dominican Republic ....