The New Cowboy at Miller Ranch: Miller Brothers of Texas Prologue

✍ Scribed by Natalie Dean

• Tongue: English
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• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Illustrations: Bill Pickett about 1908 -- Bill Pickett, bulldogging with his teeth -- Bill Pickett and two of his brothers, 1890s -- Advertisement of Pickett Brothers Broncho [Bronco, Bronc] Busters Association -- Lee Moore of Rockdale, Texas, who managed Bill's first public exhibitions of bulldogging -- Bill Pickett grabs a steer with his teeth, Cananea, Mexico, 1906 -- Bill Pickett throws up his hands to signal he is the victor -- The 101 Ranch store and office building -- Tom Mix as he looked when he was employed on the 101 Ranch and appeared with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show -- Bill Pickett, dogging at Phoenix, Arizona, in May, 1905 at the old fair grounds -- Bill Pickett and his brothers after the turn of the century -- The bit used by Pickett on his horse, Spradley, in his attempt to dog a Mexican fighting bull in Mexico City, December 23, 1908 -- Bill Pickett, about 1908 -- The White House on the 101 Ranch -- Bill Pickett with Joe Miller -- Bill Pickett on his dogging horse, Croppie -- Six cowgirls of the 101 Ranch -- An advertisement for the 101 Ranch Wild West Show -- Cattlemen's Carnival, Garden City, Kansas, 1916 -- The 101 Ranch Wild West Show performers, New York, 1928 -- Probably the last picture of Bill Pickett. He loved cigars and red shirts -- Colonel Zack T. Miller, youngest of the three Miller brothers, and the last to try to salvage the 101 Ranch -- Walton Lewis, Bill Pickett's saddle buddy and friend in the early 1930's -- Bill Pickett's grave.;The story of Willis M. Picket, "Bill" to thousands of thrilled awe-struck spectators and to the men who followed in his bulldogging footsteps, is at last told, probably as well as it ever will be.;Foreword / Bill Burchardt -- Preface -- Prologue -- A star is born -- The years in Taylor -- Pickett goes professional -- Long live the bull -- The Mexican fiesta -- The show on the road -- South American and British tours -- A new era in rodeos and wild West shows -- Too old but still dogging -- Life and a new 101 Show -- End of a cowboy and an era -- Epilogue.