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Title
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Negro Cowpoke Bulldogged 'Em in Style
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Description
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Biographical article about Bill Pickett, a black "native Texan" becoming a stunt cowboy in Oklahoma "credited with originating the bulldogging of steers" in 1893, "the same year the Cherokee Strip was opened to settlement." Dying in 1932 after a touring career with "the 101 Ranch Road Show and Wild West Extravaganza."
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Date
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1968-09-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Rex Purefoy to be Inducted
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Description
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Rex Purefoy, photographer for the Kansas City Call newspaper and a well-known western performer, has been inducted into the National Cowboys of Color Museum and Hall of Fame. The Museum and Hall of Fame recognizes individuals that have contributed to western culture and tradition and play a part in keeping this important piece of American history alive.
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Date
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2007-08-24
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Deadwood Dick: Thousands of Black Cowboys Played Big Roles in 'Winning the West'
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Description
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Vertical file with biographical article and photographic portrait of Deadwood Dick, or Nat Love (1854-1921), an African American cowboy of the Old West. He was born in a slave cabin in Tennessee and moved to Kansas in 1869, becoming a cowpuncher on the Chisholm Trail in Dodge City. He won his famous nickname in a cattle roping contest in Deadwood, Dakota Territory in 1876, was "one of the best Indian fighters in the Dakota plains territory," and was friend to both lawman Bat Masterson and outlaws Frank and Jesse James and Billy the Kid.
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Date
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1975-01
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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The Negro Cowboys
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Description
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Book with several references and descriptions of black cowboys in and around Kansas City.
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Date
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1965
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Object Type
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Book
