Bill Pickett was a black American cowboy who invented the technique known as “bulldogging”.

In 1905, Pickett began performing for the Oklahoma-based “101 Ranch Wild West Show”.

The Wild West Show was a spectacular form of American entertainment of the late 1800s and early 1900s, which no longer exists.  Those old Wild West Shows must have been something to see.   And Pickett was a part of that.

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Blog entry by Allan Wall, published January 1st, 2019, on VDARE.COM.

 

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