Bill Pickett Bulldogger

Author : Bailey C. Hanes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806122038
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill Pickett, Bulldogger written by Bailey C. Hanes and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Pickett Biography, outstanding black cowboy bulldogger.

Author : William R. Sanford
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780766040014
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill Pickett written by William R. Sanford and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the life of Bill Pickett, the African-American cowboy who invented bulldogging, from his childhood in Texas to his life as a working cowboy to his career as a rodeo star"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Bailey C. Hanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill Pickett, bulldogger written by Bailey C. Hanes and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malcolm Dickinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571687371
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill Pickett written by Malcolm Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the black Texan who introduced bulldogging to rodeos.

Author : Clay Goss
Publisher : Random House Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780394020143
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill Pickett written by Clay Goss and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though his favorite horse breaks a leg and must be shot, Bill Pickett, the black cowboy famous for his bulldogging ability, is determined to win that event at the rodeo only two months away.

Author : Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152021030
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill Pickett written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-10-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and accomplishments of the son of a former slave whose unusual bulldogging style made him a rodeo star.

Author : Tricia Martineau Wagner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762767421
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Cowboys of the Old West written by Tricia Martineau Wagner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses—men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story. When the Civil War ended, black men left the Old South in large numbers to seek a living in the Old West—industrious men resolved to carve out a life for themselves on the wild, roaming plains. Some had experience working cattle from their time as slaves; others simply sought a freedom they had never known before. The lucky travelled on horseback; the rest, by foot. Over dirt roads they went from Alabama and South Carolina to present-day Texas and California up north through Kansas to Montana. The Old West was a land of opportunity for these adventurous wranglers and future rodeo champions. A long overdue testament to the courage and skill of black cowboys, Black Cowboys of the Old West finally gives these courageous men their rightful place in history. Praise for an earlier book by the same author: “Whether you are a history enthusiast or a lover of adventure stories, African American Women of the Old West presents the reader with fascinating accounts of ten extraordinary, generally unrecognized, African Americans. Tricia Martineau Wagner takes these remarkable women from the footnotes of history and brings them to life.” —Ed Diaz, President of the Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation

Author : Ty Phillips
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466859172
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacktop Cowboys written by Ty Phillips and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of the world of competitive steer wrestling and the talented, live-fast, bruise-hard rodeo cowboys who do it. Ty Phillips's Blacktop Cowboys chronicles the 2004 rodeo season through the eyes of several steer wrestlers trying to make it back to rodeo's version of the Super Bowl, the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas. Steer wrestling is an adventure that entails riding into an arena at 25 mph, sliding off a horse while taking hold of a 500-pound steer, and then throwing the animal to the ground. The best cowboys often accomplish all this in less than four seconds. The two main characters of Blacktop Cowboys are Luke Branquinho, a young carefree cowboy on a quest for his first title, and his best friend, Travis Cadwell, a veteran trying to make the NFR one last time. Much of Blacktop Cowboys unfolds in trucks, trailers, arenas, behind the chutes, casinos, beds and everywhere else cowboys spend their time. By taking the reader deep into the cowboys' lives, Blacktop Cowboys offers a true and intimate portrait of men having the time of their lives while living on the road in pursuit of the dream to be the best.

Author : M. Dickinson
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417656110
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill Pickett: Bulldogging King of the Rodeo written by M. Dickinson and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nat Love
Publisher : Black Classic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780933121171
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Nat Love written by Nat Love and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas after the war. He was fifteen and already endowed with a reckless and romantic readiness. In wide-open Dodge City he joined up with an outfit from the Texas Panhandle to begin a career riding the range and fighting Indians, outlaws, and the elements. Years later he would say, "I had an unusually adventurous life". That was rare understatement. More characteristic was Love's claim: "I carry the marks of fourteen bullet wounds on different parts of my body, most any one of which would be sufficient to kill an ordinary man, but I am not even crippled". In 1876 a virtuoso rodeo performance in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, won him the moniker of Deadwood Dick. He became known as DD all over the West, entering into dime novels as a mysteriously dark and heroic presence. This vivid autobiography includes encounters with Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, a soon-after view of the Custer battlefield, and a successful courtship. Love left the range in 1890, the year of the official closing of the frontier. Then, as a Pullman train conductor he traveled his old trails, and those good times bring his story to a satisfying end.