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Bill Picket, circa 1902. Photo from the North Fort Worth Historical Society.
William Pickett, also known as Bill, Will, and Willie, was one of the first great rodeo cowboys and is credited with inventing the sport of bulldogging.
Of African American and Cherokee Indian descent, Pickett was born on December 5, 1870, in the Jenks-Branch community of Travis County, Texas.
He was the second of 13 children born to Thomas Jefferson Pickett, a former slave, and Mary “Janie” Gilbert.
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Pickett attended school through the fifth grade as a child and began working at ranching.
Bronco buster, by Erwin E. Smith, 1907.
By the time he was 18, the family had moved to Taylor, Texas, where he and his brothers began a horse-breaking and “cowboy” service called Pickett Brothers Bronco Busters and Rough Riders Association.
Two years later, he married Maggie Turner, a former slave and daughter of a white plantation owner. The couple would eventually have nine children.
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