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| | Bill Pickett Rodeo |
 | | Bill Pickett rests here, too, a name so well known in rodeo that rodeo people call the graveyard "Bill Pickett Hill," bestowing upon him a prominence that, they feel atones for the disregard of others buried at the site. |
 | | Bill was born in 1870, five years after the Civil War ended and the slaves of the Confederacy were emancipated. |
 | | Bill took after the steer and bulldogged it." (How he did this was not elaborated on, but he must have used the bite-'em style because Moore, who had a theatrical bent, booked Pickett in Texas and other states, describing him as a "bulldogger that did it with his teeth." |
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