Dr. Roger Hardaway, professor of history at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, is featured in two new online articles about African American cowboys. Hardaway, a historian with an emphasis on the American West, has been researching and writing about black cowboys for years. In these recent articles, Hardaway serves as a resource person for the authors. His comments are quoted in each essay.

The first article titled "The Lesser Known History of African American Cowboys" was published in February in the online edition of "Smithsonian," the official organ of the Smithsonian Museum in Washing...