Britton (Britt) Johnson was a legendary black cowboy on the West Texas frontier after the summer of 1865. Britton traveled out onto the Llano Estacado in pursuit of Indians who had kidnapped his wife and two small children in the Elm Creek Raid of 1864. Johnson was a slave of Moses Johnson. Although he was […]
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