I have trusted him farther than any man. He was my banker, my detective, and everything else in Colorado, New Mexico and the other wild country. The nearest and only bank was in Denver, and when we carried money, I gave it to Bose, for a thief would never think of robbing him.
Milton L. He remained as an employee of Dr. Ikard following his emancipation, but in joined a cattle drive to Colorado led by Charles Goodnight. Custom Search. Books by Clay Coppedge. O ne reason the relatively brief cattle drive era , which lasted from the end of the Civil War to the early s, had such an impact on history was because the cattle drives allowed men to rise above the circumstances of their upbringing and education to make a little money and earn a measure of respect.
For Ikard, more than most, the road to the history books was a long and winding one. Born into slavery in Mississippi in the s, his father was most likely his slave master, Dr.
Milton Ikard, and his mother was a slave named King. Goodnight later commented that he trusted Bose Ikard "farther than any living man. He was my detective, banker, and everything else in Colorado, New Mexico, and the other wild country I was in.
In Ikard wanted to settle in Colorado, but Goodnight persuaded him to buy a farm in Parker County, Texas, because there were so few Blacks in Colorado. Ikard settled in Weatherford and began his family at a time when Indian attacks were still common in North Texas. In he participated in a running battle with Quanah Parker 's Comanche band, riding alongside his former master, Milton Ikard.
Bose married a woman named Angelina in or , and they had fifteen children. In his later years he attended several cowboy reunions.
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