Western movie 1990'-2000's

I remember scenes from this movie but cant remember an actor or title. The plot as I recall is 2 brothers embark on a cattle drive, they enlist help from a young artist named quigley who wants to earn money as dowry to marry, a black farrier/blacksmith who becomes the cook, and 2 cattle thieves.
what movie features a black cowboy who saves a runaway wagon but breaks his back in the process. has a young man named quigley who draws scenes from the trail such as a man who dies, and has 2 cattle thieves one of which tells quigley to stay awake he should rub tobacco spit into his eyes because "it'll burn like hellfire" and he will stay awake.

any help naming this movie would be appreciated

It might be the 1988 TV movie version Red River

There was a movie called Quigley Down Under (1990), but the story is far different than what you described. Is it possible that you also saw that movie and the character's name in the one you described was something else? The name/nickname Cookie was kind of common in Western movies.

(Cookie is commonly the nickname for the cook on a cattle drive in Western movies. Maybe this was true of the real west as well?)

Found it. The Quest: The Longest Drive

Quentin, not Quigley, is one of the brothers, and the artist is Wakely.

There are "a couple of sneaky rustlers", but I'm not sure of their names.

"The Quest" was the name of the television series that aired on NBC in the fall of 1976, starring Tim Matheson - two years before National Lampoon's Animal House - and Kurt Russell - still trying to break free of his Walt Disney image, the year after he starred as real-life killer Charles Whitman in the TV movie "The Deadly Tower" and three years before he would star as the King of Rock and Roll in the TV Biopic "Elvis" directed by John Carpenter, which turned his career around. "The Longest Drive" is the TV movie that served as the pilot for "The Quest" series. The pilot boasted some Western legends in Woody Strode, Brian Keith, and Keenan Wynn and also included Dan O'Herlihy (RoboCop, Fail Safe), a pre-"CHiPs" Erik Estrada, a pre-"Family" John Rubinstein, and Gary Lockwood (2001: A Space Odyssey).

"The Quest" only aired eleven of its fifteen completed episodes after the pilot, as it was canceled due to low ratings. It finished 91st out of 101 shows that year, a season topped by "Happy Days" followed by "Laverne & Shirley", "M*A*SH*", "Charlie's Angels", and "The Six Million Dollar Man" for the top five.

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