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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.

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.

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