In the saddle
, a1974 comedy-Western directed by spoof-master Mel Brooks, is a brilliant satire on the racism in Hollywood films of the American West. The hero is Bart (played by Cleavon Little), a sophisticated urbanite appointed sheriff to ‘save' an all-white town. It's wildly inappropriate, endlessly hilarious, conveys the idea of a black sheriff as absurd and black cowboys unheard of. Historians suggest that black cowboys in the American West actually accounted for around 25% from as early as the
