![]() ![]() ![]() He was a brilliant, self-educated man, a superb cowboy, and a devoted observer of nature. They are unanimous, however, on the essential points: George McJunkin was born a slave in Texas around 1850. Thanks to the Internet I have been able to track down some of those articles myself.īecause McJunkin left no written records of his own, those who have spoken or written about him all differ slightly on the details of his life and his discovery of the Folsom bones. ![]() He was also a meticulous researcher and compiled a bibliography of newspaper and magazine articles, many of them dating back to the 1920s and 30s. ![]() Fortunately, Folsom was writing at a time when some of the people who knew McJunkin were still alive and he made good use of their memories. The only full-length biography of him to date is Franklin Folsom’s book for young readers, Black Cowboy: The Life and Legend of George McJunkin, first published in 1973. He appears in numerous works on North American archaeology and paleontology. I rapidly discovered that McJunkin was one of the most famous “forgotten” men in American history. I first encountered George McJunkin in Kenneth Tankersley’s excellent book, In Search of Ice Age Americans. ![]()
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