![]() ![]() ![]() In 1867 George ran away to start a life as a cowboy and to look for a school. ![]() ![]() George learned to read and write from by exchanging lessons with Emmett and Coke Roberts in exchange for lessons on how to break horses.Īfter learning to read, George read everything he could get his hands on and was a very well-informed person. His first pen and paper were a piece of slate rock and a ten-penny nail. Cowboys taught George to read and write while sitting around the campfire. McJunkin was a very capable person who was denied the opportunity to attend school, yet he showed remarkable academic accomplishment. The elder McJunkin saved his money and was able to buy his freedom.ĭuring the Civil War, while all the White cowboys were away fighting, George learned to ride from the Mexican vaqueros who stayed behind.Įarly in his life George worked as a cowboy and learned to read from fellow cowboys. He was allowed him to keep the money he made working for others. George’s father was a fine blacksmith and did all of his master’s blacksmith work. George McJunkin was a much-accomplished man in a world that would deny people of color the opportunities that he used so effectively in his life.īorn into slavery I Midway, Texas, George McJunkin was about 14 years old at the end of the Civil War. ![]()
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