[ENTERTAINMENT] The Bull Dogger. Poster and lobby card feat. "World's Colored Champion" Bill Pickett

40 x 26 in. poster advertising the Norman Film Mfg. Co.'s production of The Bull Dogger, featuring Bill Pickett, "the Colored Hero of the Mexican Bull Ring in Death Defying Feats of Courage and Skill." With a prominent portrait of Pickett featured at center.

[With:] Photographic lobby card promoting The Bull Dogger, 14 x 11 in. A close-up view of Bill Pickett is featured, with caption, "Bill Pickett throwing a Wild Mexican Bull with his teeth."

Bill Pickett was a cowboy and rodeo performer who invented the technique known as "bulldogging," in which he was able to wrestle a steer to the ground by biting a cow on the lip and falling backward. He established the Pickett Brothers Bronco Busters and Rough Riders Association with his four brothers and toured his successful show around Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. In 1905, he joined the 101 Ranch Wild West Show performing under the name "The Dusky Demon" alongside Will Rogers, Tom Mix, and Buffalo Bill. He even made forays into film, appearing in The Crimson Skull and starring in The Bull-Dogger, which was filmed in the black community of Boley, Oklahoma in 1921.