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Bill Pickett - Bulldogger (Paperback, New edition)
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Bill Pickett - Bulldogger (Paperback, New edition)
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List price R571
Loot Price R525
Discovery Miles 5 250
You Save R46 (8%)
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While blacks have played an important role - as explorers, scouts,
Indian consorts, soldiers, cowboys, farmers - in the exploration,
conquest, and settlement of the American West, they have received
scant attention from the chroniclers of the pageant of western
development.Few of rodeo's early heroes matched the achievements of
the black cowboy Bill Pickett, and his story is recounted here for
the first time in book form. Pickett grew up in Texas in the
1880's, the child of former slaves, to become nationally famous as
the star of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show. Pickett was associated
with such western figures as Tom Mix, Will Rogers, Milt Hinkle, and
Lucille Mulhall, and earned a reputation as an all around cowboy of
legendary abilities. His greatest claim to fame is as the
originator of steer wrestling, the only rodeo event to the traced
to one individual. Audiences all over the United States, South
America, Canada, and England were amazed to see the ""Dusky Demon""
fell on thousand-pound steers and bring them down bite-'em style
with his teeth. In spite of a life of incredible physical daring -
afoot and unarmed he once took on an enraged fighting bull in a
Mexico City arena - he lived to age sixty, to die with his boots on
in a professional career had been with the 101 Ranch, and his
funeral was on the ranch's last great events. In recognition of his
many achievements Pickett was elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame in
1971, the first black cowboy to be so honored. The author brings
together all that is known about Pickett, sorting out the facts and
legends, and un telling the story sheds new light on early-day
rodeo and 101 Ranch life.
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