How Long to Read Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana by Nancy K. Williams

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Dust and Determination After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn't want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a new life. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove two thousand longhorns across southern Texas blazing a trail to Bosque Redondo in New Mexico. In 1866, the new Goodnight-Loving Trail was crowded with cattle headed for a government market. By the 1870s, twenty-five percent of the over thirty-five thousand cowboys in the West were black. They were part of trail crews that drove more than twenty-seven million cattle on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, Western Trail, Chisholm Trail and Shawnee Trail. They were paid equally, and their skill and ability brought them earned respect and prestige. Author Nancy Williams recounts their lasting legacy.

How long is Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana?

Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana by Nancy K. Williams is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.

This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana aloud.

What Reading Level is Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana?

Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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