History
BY ASIA ARMOUR
The museum has photos, posters and other history of Black Cowboys.
Owner Larry Callies opened the Black Cowboy Museum in July 2017 in Rosenberg.
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Nonpro t shares history at Black Cowboy Museum Even without his voice, which he said he once used to serenade former President George H. Bush, Larry Callies loves to lead tours at the Black Cowboy Museum in Rosenberg. The nonpro t, which he established in one door, he’ll open a better one. He opened up this museum.”
Callies said many in his lineage were Black cowboys.
Callies said he takes great pride in his heritage as a cowboy, having grown up riding horseback and roping cattle with his family in El Campo. The inspiration In an interview for a 2021 episode of Net ix series, “High on the Hog,” Callies spoke to what he called the deliberate erasure of the Black cowboy. “I didn’t want the Black cowboys to go in vain,” he said in the episode. To Callies, being a cowboy is more than a Hollywood lm or a costume. It’s his father and his grandfather, he said. It’s where he comes from and who he is.
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July 2017, may be small in size—but the memorabilia chronicles centuries of African American in uence on American and cowboy culture, Callies said. About the owner Callies began to lose his voice in the 1990s due to muscle tension dysphonia, ending his career as a country singer. Years later, he would open the museum at what he said was God’s prompting. “I’m a Christian rst, and a cowboy immediately after,” Callies said. “And I know when God closes
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