In 1939, actor Herb Jeffries made history by starring in “The Bronze Buckaroo,” the first-ever Western to feature a Black singing cowboy as its protagonist. With Jeffries in the lead as Bob Blake — a ...

The black singing cowboy Herb Jeffries sang a Duke Ellington hit and appeared in 1930s westerns like Harlem Rides the Range and The Bronze Buckaroo. The Bronze Buckaroo Rides Off Into The Sunset The ...

Herb Jeffries, a jazz balladeer whose matinee-idol looks won him fame in the late 1930s as the “Bronze Buckaroo” — the first singing star of all-black cowboy movies for segregated audiences — died May ...

He starred in such films as "Harlem on the Prairie" and "The Bronze Buckaroo," then sang with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and recorded several hits. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Jeffries, who later ...

From the 1920s through the 1940s, a shadow film industry operated in America, producing films with all-black casts for African American audiences. Austin Film Society will present two newly restored ...

Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed with Duke Ellington and was known as the "Bronze Buckaroo" in a series of all-black 1930s Westerns, died of heart failure Sunday morning at a Los ...

The San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum and the Ella Austin Community Center will present two vintage Black cowboy films Saturday that were popular with Black audiences during ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A 16mm release print of a feature film entitled The Bronze Buckaroo. It consists of two reels of positive 16mm acetate film (a) and (b), is in ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...