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	Bill Pickett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Willie M. "Bill" Pickett (December 5, 1862 - April 2, 1932) was a cowboy and rodeo performer.
		Pickett was born in the Jenks-Branch community of Travis County, Texas.
		Pickett was named to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1971 and was the first fl honoree to that organization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Pickett (512 words)

	"Bill" Willie M. Pickett
		Ben is actually Bill Pickett's younger brother, who was primarily the administrator of the Pickett Brothers Bronco Busters and Rough Riders Association ("Catching and Taming wild cattle a specialty").The mistake occurred even though great diligence was observed by all parties concerned.
		This is the correct Bill Pickett, the real rodeo starÉinventor of bulldoggingÉas he appears on the revised version that corrected the original error.
		Bill Pickett was born in Texas, circa 1871, the son of an African-American father and a Choctaw Indian mother.
	members.aol.com /efirpo/pickett.html (419 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bill Pickett was born the second of thirteen children, on December 5, 1870 in Williamson County, Texas, to former slaves, Thomas Jefferson and Mary Elizabeth Pickett.
		However, Bill Pickett, standing five feet seven inches tall and weighing only 145 pounds, with powerful shoulders and arms, was widely known for his special "bulldogging" skill which he used to compensate for his stature.
		Zack Miller declared that Bill Pickett was the "greatest sweat-and-dirt cowhand that ever lived; bar none." In 1971, the legendary "Dusky Demon" became the first fl cowboy to be admitted to the National Rodeo Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/men/bpickett.htm (621 words)

	French Creole \| Bill Pickett
		Bill pickett was a major star of rodeos and Wild West shows and the inventor of a unique style of bulldogging in the first years of the twentieth century.
		Pickett discovered that he too could subdue cattle by biting; as an adult he leaped from his horse, seized the steer by the horns, and pulled the head back to the point to the ground, with the animal often landing on top.
		Bill Pickett was now left alone since all of his daughters had married and left home.
	www.frenchcreoles.com /CreoleCulture/famouscreoles/billpickett/billpickett.htm (1259 words)

	Who is Bill pickett, cowboy rodeo star?
		Pickett, who was five feet, seven inches and weighed 145 pounds, would use this technique on steers weighing between 800 to 1,100 pounds.
		Pickett lived with his family in Taylor, Texas where he was a member of the National Guard and deacon of the Taylor Baptist Church.
		The Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo is the only touring fl rodeo in the U.S. The profits from this rodeo go to the Bill Pickett Memorial Scholarship fund for students who compete in rodeos and/or are majoring in equine or animal science in college.
	pa.essortment.com /whoisbillpick_rley.htm (1149 words)

	Lesson Plan - Bill Pickett
		Bill Pickett is known world wide for his contributions to the sport of Rodeo as well as the cattle industry.
		Bill Pickett was not the first fl cowboy or the only fl cowboy, however, he is for sure one of the most famous.
		Bill Pickett died in 1932 when he was kicked in the head by a wild horse.
	teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/pickett.html (1367 words)

	Bill Pickett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bill Pickett was born on December 5, 1870 in Williamson County, Texas.
		Bill married in 1890 to Maggie Turner and was the father of 9 children.
		Bill Pickett is considered to be one of the greatest Rodeo Riders and Cowboys that ever lived.
	multirace.org /firstday/stamp49.htm (446 words)

	Bill Pickett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pickett was inducted into the National Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1972 for his contribution to the sport.
		Bill Pickett was the second of thirteen children born to Thomas Jefferson and Mary Virginia Elizabeth (Gilbert) Pickett, both of whom were former slaves.
		Bill Pickett died April 2, 1932, after being kicked in the head by a horse.
	www.famoustexans.com /billpickett.htm (579 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / He took the bull by the horns
		Bill was to remain in the ring for fifteen minutes; although he would not be required to down the bull, he would have to maintain direct physical contact with it for five consecutive minutes.
		Pickett’s act was as popular in England as it was at home, and brought him an invitation to dine at the castle of an earl.
		Bill had a tough time figuring out when to use which pieces of flatware, and was just as happy to wind up the evening eating leftovers in the show’s mess tent.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1967/1/1967_1_50.shtml (3578 words)

	Bill Pickett - MicroReference Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A sculptural tribute to Bill Picket depicting him biting the lower lip of a steer as he brings it down is prominently displayed at Ft Worth's Cowboy Coliseum.
		Bill Pickett was also featured in the USPS Legends of the West series of stamps.
		An exciting event in Rodeo History was the 1905 appearance of Bill Pickett in Madison Square Garden.
	www.cs.uh.edu /~clifton/pickett.micro.html (906 words)

	African American Registry: Bill Pickett was a cowboy legend
		Bill Pickett was the second of thirteen children who began his career as a cowboy while in grade school.
		Pickett soon began giving exhibitions of his roping, riding and bulldogging skills, passing a hat for donations.
		Bill Pickett died in 1932, after being kicked in the head by a horse.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/469/Bill_Pickett_was_a_cowboy_legend (372 words)

	Bill Pickett, Inventor of bulldogging, Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Famer, and America's first black cowboy star.
		Pickett was the first fl man to be elected to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma.
		Pickett died on April 2 after being kicked in the head by a horse he was roping.
		Today Pickett is honored not only with a spot in the Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame but also with the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo in Oklahoma.
	www.texasescapes.com /ClayCoppedge/Bill-Pickett-and-Bulldogging.htm (914 words)

	The Official Site of the City and County of Denver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BILLS POSTPONED: (SERIES OF 1998) C.B. 679, Series of 1998, A bill for an ordinance amending Article IV Section 39-121(2), of the Revised Municipal Code of the City and County of Denver concerning fees for golf courses.
		BILLS FOR INTRODUCTION: (SERIES OF 1998) C.B. 809, Series of 1998, A bill for an ordinance levying upon all taxable property within the City and County of Denver taxes for the year 1998, to be collected in 1999, for purposes authorized by law.
		C.B. 815, Series of 1998, A bill for an ordinance amending the body art Article of Chapter 24, Health and Sanitation to require consent of parents or guardians to perform body art procedures on persons under the age of 18 and to repeal the ordinance concerning tattoos on persons under the age of 18.
	www.denvergov.org /CityCouncil/historical/template1842.asp (2993 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: PICKETT, WILLIAM
		According to family records, Pickett was born at the Jenks-Branch community on the Travis county line on December 5, 1870.
		By 1907 Bill, as he was then called, had become a full-time employee of the ranch, where he worked as a cowboy and performed with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show.
		Pickett died on April 2, 1932, after being kicked in the head by a horse.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/fpi4.html (555 words)

	Bill Pickett -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Pickett was a product of the Southern fl church, and gospel was at the core of his musical manner and onstage persona.
		Pickett's music merged gospel and rhythm-and-blues elements into rock and roll in a style that became known as soul.
		George Pickett was born on Jan. 25, 1825, in Richmond, Va. He graduated from the military academy at West Point in 1846 and served in the Mexican War and in Texas until 1855.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9059928 (694 words)

	Black Voice News
		The Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo was founded in 1984 by Lu Vason and has been a powerful tool in his goals of educating people on the Black West experiences of the cultural pride associated with all of the contributions made by African Americans.
		Bill Pickett would race on his horse to catch a steer, and then leap out of his saddle to grab the steer’s head and twist it slowly toward the sky.
		Bill Pickett was a star attraction on the rodeo and Wild West Circuit for more than 15 years after the turn of the century.
	www.blackvoicenews.com /print.php?sid=3384 (605 words)

	BILL PICKETT
		Bill Pickett, the oldest of 13 children, was the son of a former slave.
		Bill Pickett is credited with inventing the rodeo event called bulldogging, also known as steer-wrestling, in 1903.
		Part of the profits go to the Bill Pickett Memorial Scholarship Fund, which was set up for students who either compete in rodeo and/or are working towards a degree in equine science or animal science.
	www.coax.net /people/lwf/PICKETT.HTM (961 words)

	African Americans and the Old West
		Bill Pickett was one of five boys among the Picketts' thirteen children.
		Bill left school in the 5th grade to become a ranch hand, and soon he began to ride horses and watch the long horn steers of his native Texas.
		Bill Pickett practiced his stunt by riding hard and springing from his horse and wrestling the steer to the ground.
	www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/african/west/west.htm (12045 words)

	Weekend: Celebrating little-known history
		The Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, named for the Hall of Fame rodeo rider, bills itself as the nation's only touring fl rodeo, celebrating the often overlooked role African-Americans played in settling the frontier.
		Pickett was a star attraction on the rodeo and Wild West show circuit for more than 15 years, and in 1972 he became the first fl cowboy inducted into the National Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame.
		Pickett was regarded as "the greatest sweat-and-dirt cowhand that ever lived, bar none," Vason said.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/06/20/news_pf/Weekend/Celebrating_little_kn.shtml (480 words)

	Bill Pickett Biography / Biography of Bill Pickett Biography
		Known as the "Dusky Demon," Bill Pickett (1870-1932) was the best-known African American rodeo performer of all time.
		Western legend, Bill Pickett, was only five feet, seven inches tall and weighed only 145 pounds, but he was all muscle, a larger-than-life Western legend in his own time.
		Pickett performed all over the world in wild west shows, circuses.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-bill-pickett/index.html (225 words)

	LA Weekly
		Bill Pickett wasn't an actor; he was a real-life cowboy.
		Pickett's film career happened because of the burgeoning popularity of race films, which debuted shortly after the release of D.W. Griffith's Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, in 1916.
		Pickett was all but forgotten after his death, though he has slowly received his props as biographers have begun to unearth his story.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/98/34/film-davis.php (1387 words)

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		Synopsis: Bill Pickett, the son of former slaves, was born near Austin, Texas in 1870, and is remembered for inventing bulldogging, which today is one of the standard rodeo events.
		Pretend you are a sportswriter during the early 1900's, and write your own newspaper account of Bill Pickett's exploits in the bulldogging event during a local rodeo in your hometown.
		Bill Pickett was honored with a United States Postage Stamp for his important role in American history.
	www.libsci.sc.edu /miller/BillPickett.htm (1248 words)

	Vignette: Bill Pickett
		By the time of his death, Pickett was the most famous fl cowboy entertainer in American history.
		Bill Pickett never seemed to tire of his theatrical adventures in the saddle, appearing at literally hundreds of small and large rodeo events throughout the East and West.
		Pickett was the first fl man to be inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/pickett_bill.htm (387 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bill Pickett Rodeo, named for the famed old west fl cowboy who invented the art of bulldogging, has been touring the nation for 21 years.
		Pickett helped refine what now is known as steer wrestling with his success in riding alongside a steer, jumping onto the steer’s shoulders and horns and then digging his feet into the ground to bring the animal down.
		According to legend, Pickett borrowed a trick he learned from a cattle dog by biting the lip of a particularly stubborn steer.
	www.11alive.com /rss/article.aspx?storyid=63776 (904 words)

	Voices of the West - Bill Pickett
		In Travis County, near Taylor, Texas, William M. "Bill" Pickett was born in 1870.
		Bill Pickett practiced this stunt while he worked on ranches.
		Bill Pickett invented the ______ method of cattle wrestling.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_35_448.html (405 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Frederick Cody (1845-1917) was a colorful Western figure known to the world as "Buffalo Bill." He Joined the Pony Express at the age of 14.
		Bill Pickett (?1870-1932) became the first African-American inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
		He perfected the sport of "bulldogging" steers, that is, throwing them to the ground using their heads and horns.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/cowboys.htm (225 words)

	Bill Pickett
		Pickett is credited with introducing the sport of bulldogging, or steer wrestling, to rodeo.
		The "Dusky Demon," as Pickett was called, was a good friend of cowboy stars Will Rogers, Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson and Tom Mix, the latter being a fellow employee at the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma.
		Rogers once introduced Pickett to the audience from the stage of the Ziegfield Follies in New York.
	www.casperstartribune.net /articles/2004/06/27/news/community/7be82fa771a6a37087256ec00019aa41.txt (433 words)

	Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online: Texas Day By Day - December 5, 1870
		On this day in 1870, fl rodeo cowboy Bill Pickett was born in the Jenks-Branch community in Travis County.
		As the "Dusky Deamon," Pickett performed at rodeos and fairs throughout Texas and the West.
		Pickett died in 1932 after being kicked in the head by a horse.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /daybyday/12-05-002.html (295 words)

	Multicultural Perspectives
		Pickett was born in 1870, the second of thirteen children, to Black Cherokees in Oklahoma.
		Billed as the "Dusky Demon" or the "Wonderful Colored Cowboy" Pickett's daring act drew the applause and admiration of young and old, cowboy or city slicker.
		Pickett's five foot six, 145-pound frame swept through his bulldogging feat with the agility of a ballet dancer.
	www.cyberbee.com /wwho/multiculture.html (423 words)

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