Statue of William "Bill" Pickett
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William "Bill" Pickett was the first African American cowboy to be inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Pickett was born in 1870 and became a ranch hand. He noticed that herder dogs controlled steers by biting their noses and he originated a technique to replicate this, wrapping his arm around a steer and pinching its nose. He became a rodeo star and eventually a film star by wrestling steer in this manner, a technique now called "bulldogging."
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The statue of Bill Pickett "bulldogging" a steer.
