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Bill Pickett, "The Bull-Dogger"
William "Bill" Pickett has been considered the best-known African American rodeo performer of all time. At five feet seven inches and only 145 pounds, he became a western legend. He was born in 1870 or 1871 in central Texas. He was the second of thirteen children born to Thomas Jefferson Pickett and Mary "Janie" Gilbert, both former slaves. His ancestry included African and Cherokee relatives.
Pickett attended school through the fifth grade. He left to become a ranch hand and, no doubt, help support his family. As a ranch hand, he polished his roping and riding skills. Bill invented the steer wrestling technique called "bulldogging" and it made him famous.
Cow dogs have long been used to help round up cattle, sometimes biting the lips of cattle to subdue them. Pickett began using this technique when he was about ten years old. Sometimes it was impossible to rope a steer because of all the brush. Cowboys would have to wrestle the steers to the ground using their own strength. Pickett began to use the bulldog technique when wrestling steers. "Riding his horse, Pickett came alongside a Longhorn steer, dropped to the steer's head, twisted its head toward the sky, and bit its upper lip to get full control," says Famous Texans dot com.