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Mail your name and address, and $1.25 to Glover, Dept. EE, 1001 Franklin Avenue. Garden Citv. N.Y. ARIZONA DATS will Route Willm The First Among my pals in the writing game is Bill Burchardt of Oklahoma City who, besides being a writer of western stories, edits and writes a good deal of the material in Oklahoma Today, a beautiful quarterly magazine "published in the interest of all Oklahoma." In the Autumn 1967 issue Bill wrote an article, "A Rider of the 101," in which he tells in brief the life story of Bill Pickett, a Negro cowboy and performer with Miller Brothers 101 Wild West Show.

Pickett was the first man to introduce bulldogging as a part of a wild west or rodeo show. With editor Burchardt's permission to use his story and also with permission of the Naylor Book Publishers of San Antonio, to use their photograph of Bill Pickett, which appeared in the Naylor Publishing Company's book "The First Bulldogger" authored by Esse Forrester O'Brien, I herewith give the story that Burchardt captions "A Rider of the 101." "The steer lunged into the arena. The rider poised behind the barrier let the steer get a long running start then his horse plunged full speed after it. "Coming up on the steer's near side, the rider leaped from the saddle. He turned a complete somersault along the length of the steer's back, flying out and down over the curved horns to fasten his teeth in the side of the steer's mouth.

"With sheer strength he dragged the running behemoth's head to the tanbark, thrust its horns in the ground, and forward momentum threw the steer hocks over in a somersault of its own. "Whereupon the steer was altogether happy to lie quietly and rest awhile, with the bulldogger's teeth still biting its lip, his (the bulldogger's) arms raised aloft to show that he had not used his hands at all, and the crowd in the grandstand which had fallen utterly silent let loose a roar of applause and amazement. Bill Pickett had performed his bulldogging act with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show. "As Bill's friend Milt Hinkle has pointed out in an article in True West magazine, Pickett was not a big man. He was less than six-feet-tall, weighing a solid 165 pounds.

Bill was a Negro, a superb athlete, and lithe and agile as a circus trapeze performer. His sport was rodeo. Perhaps it should be called his vocation, but he was first and last a cowboy. "He was not only a cowboy, he was a tophand at that exacting, dangerous and tough profession. Bill Pickett had begun riding and roping as soon as he was old enough to straddle a horse.

Throughout his life he probably spent more time in the saddle than he did afoot, working cattle and performing in wild west show arenas. "Zack Miller, of the 101, first saw Bill perform in 1905. He hired him on the spot, for that was the year that Joe Miller, with Frank Greer of the Guthrie Daily Leader, had persuaded the National Editorial Association to hold its next convention in Oklahoma. "The bait that had fetched the convention was Joe Miller's offer to entertain the editors with a wild west show at the 101 Ranch. It was quite a show.

On June 11, after three days of convention business in Guthrie, thirty-five special trains carried the newspaper editors and spectators to Ponca City. The coaches were loaded with passengers, on top, inside, a few eager enough to ride the rods beneath. "Sixty-five thousand people from every state swarmed over the 101 Ranch headquarters. They saw the murderous Apache, Geronimo, and gave the incredible Bill Pickett a standing ovation. They were entranced by the cowgirl artistry of the beautiful Lucille Mulhall.

The rough-riding 101 Ranch cowhands performed feats of bronc busting, wild riding and roping that brought the editors to their feet applauding and shouting, time and again. "They saw bruising Indian stickball, and plains warriors kicking up the dust in war ceremonials that had been danced in earnest only a few years earlier. At dusk, long after the show was over, an Indian attack on a circled wagon train was so convincing that some editors and their startled wives thought it was the real thing. Out of it all grew the 101 Ranch Wild West Show which traveled the world, and in which Bill Pickett was a headline star. "Billboard magazine's issue of August 15, 1911, called Bill Pickett, the modern Urus, in a demonstration of courage, nerve, strength, and agility in which he duplicated his feat of conquering a Spanish fighting bull, unarmed and unaided, by forcing the largest bulls to the tanbark by sheer "Pickett had conquered the Snan- ish bull in Mexico City three years earlier, in 1908.

The Tulsa World reports that Bill had not accompanied the 101 Ranch show on that trip to.