Shadow Riders of the Subterranean Circuit: A Descriptive Account of Black Rodeo in the Texas Gulf Coast Region

An example of this omission is Bill Picket!, an African American from Taylor, Texas, who is credited for having invented "bulldogging," a popular rodeo event commonly known as steer wrestling. [...] he became a celebrity for his trademark bulldogging technique, Picket! was forced to dress as a Mexican toreador because rodeos did not admit black contestants. [...] around the 1950s, the lack of black professional cowboys and some underlying racism kept most blacks from competing with whites.