Abstract
“They Called Him . . . Buckaroo Sam” features the life of a Chinese pioneer in Grant County, northeastern Oregon. His story dispels misconceptions that often permeate history of Chinese pioneers in America. It is not generally known, for example, that there were Chinese cowboys, or vaqueros and wranglers, in the American West. While it is indisputable that they would have faced racial prejudice, discrimination, and persecution, racial harmony nevertheless prevailed for Buckaroo Sam and his contemporaries in this mining region of Oregon. For several years, he worked on the Stewart Ranch before becoming ranch foreman at the Harve Fields Ranch, one of the earliest ranches that employed an all-Chinese crew in the John Day Valley. Using a graphic medium, Dale Hom imagines and conveys this cowboy’s lifestyle and circumstances, expanding the conventional view of Chinese pioneers on the western frontier.
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