Comments on: Bill Pickett (ca 1870-1932), African American Cowboy https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/ Quick Takes and Popular Postings about America's Past Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kate Kelly https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/#comment-463923 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:09:55 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3132#comment-463923 In reply to Kaylee Bonds.

He is a great project! Please add in that it’s only been in the last 10 or 15 years that people have been talking about Black cowboys. Now we know that a high percentage of cowboys were Black. They were very important.

]]> By: Kaylee Bonds https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/#comment-463922 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:39:55 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3132#comment-463922 Im doing Bill Pickett for my school progect!!!!!!!

]]> By: Kate Kelly https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/#comment-452985 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:54:58 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3132#comment-452985 In reply to Marion McClellan.

Oh interesting. Thank you for posting that additional information! Bull riding is so dangerous it is no wonder he was hurt—probably more than once.

]]> By: Marion McClellan https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/#comment-452977 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 01:18:14 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3132#comment-452977 I knew historian who informed me that Bill Pickett got hurt and lived a spell in Sweet Home, Oklahoma with a local family.

]]> By: Kate Kelly https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/#comment-449689 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:09:09 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3132#comment-449689 In reply to A. Binion.

Thank you for posting. Yes Bill Pickett was quite a remarkable cowboy.

]]> By: A. Binion https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/#comment-449643 Sat, 11 Feb 2023 15:27:19 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3132#comment-449643 A great piece of our history, thank you for sharing.

]]> By: Kate Kelly https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/#comment-437962 Sun, 05 Dec 2021 01:49:20 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3132#comment-437962 In reply to Also Bostick.

Let me see if I can connect you.

]]> By: Also Bostick https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/#comment-437953 Sat, 04 Dec 2021 16:38:14 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3132#comment-437953 Mr Kimball am a Bill Pickett enactor would love to have a picture of Mr. Pickett’s. Rife.if you would share my email address is asoptells@aol.com would be most appreciated thanks

]]> By: Allen Hoskins, Played Farina in Our Gang - America Comes Alive https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/#comment-390761 Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:00:07 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3132#comment-390761 […] “Now here’s where we have a lot of fun,” he promised. “We’re going to play Indian today. See, here are all the bright feathers I brought for Harry and Farina to wear.” The other children get to be settlers. (Stereotyping? Yes. Even Hal Roach probably had no idea there were black cowboys like Bill Pickett.) […]

]]> By: There Were Black Cowboys? Teaching the American West from a More Diverse Perspective – Democracy and Me https://americacomesalive.com/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/#comment-361361 Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:20:02 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3132#comment-361361 […] Bill Pickett (ca 1870-1932), African American Cowboy https://americacomesalive.com/2012/02/24/bill-pickett-ca-1870-1932-african-american-cowboy/ […]

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