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Bose Ikard (1843 – January 4, 1929) was an American cowboy who participated in the pioneering cattle drives on what became known as the Goodnight–Loving Trail, after the American Civil War and through 1869. Aspects of his life inspired the fictional character Joshua Deets, the African-American cowboy in Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove.
Bose Ikard (1859–1928)In June 1929, Goodnight was quoted by the Weatherford Daily Herald as saying about Ikard, "I have trusted him 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."Shackelford, Page 135 In the 2010 Plains Folk feature (heard on Prairie Public Radio) called The Grave of Oliver Loving, commentator Tom Isern mentions that Bose Ikard was a prototype for Deets. Tricia Wagner, writing in Black Cowboys of the Old West, states that Lonesome Dove, with its three characters - Woodrow Call, Gus McCrae, and Josh Deets - "was based on the adventures of Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving and their right-hand man, Bose Ikard" and that "Danny Glover played Bose Ikard".
Served with me four years on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, never shirked duty or disobeyed an order, rode with me in many stampedes, participated in three engagements with Comanches, splendid behavior. C. GOODNIGHT
The epitaph for McMurtry's character of Joshua Deets was written as:
Josh Deets
Served with me 30 years, Fought in 21 Engagements with the Commanche and Kiowa. Cheerful in all weathers. Never sherked a task. Splendid behaviour.
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