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Movie poster advertising 101 Ranch's Bill Pickett in "The Bull-Dogger" / Unknown

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Movie poster advertising the 1922 silent western film "The Bull-Dogger" starring Bill Pickett (1870-1932). Pickett was an African-American rodeo cowboy credited with invented bulldogging, or steer wrestling. He toured with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show under the name “The Dusky Demon,” and he was the first black cowboy to be inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1971, forty years after his death.

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Title(s): 
Movie poster advertising 101 Ranch's Bill Pickett in "The Bull-Dogger"
Creator(s): 
Unknown
Culture: 
American
Date: 
1921
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
The Collection of Jerry and Ruth Murphey
Accession No: 
16.963
Previous Number(s): 
TL 2008.1.121
Department: 
Not On View

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