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To: BBell
The Lesser-Known History of African-American Cowboys


Bill Pickett invented “bulldogging,” a rodeo technique to wrestle a steer to the ground.
Interesting that he doesn't have his chaps on but rather draped across the saddle horn.

18 posted on 06/16/2018 12:25:14 PM PDT by deport
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Holy smokes! That picture of Bill Pickett looks eerily like my grandfather, who was the son of a black Mississipi cowboy.

Goose bumps.


29 posted on 06/16/2018 12:55:35 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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