Cowboys intended to train their sons to be profession, but Bill Pickett seems to have picked up cowboy ways in partnership with his brothers. He was born in Travis County, TX, about 30miles northwest of
Austin on December 5, 1870 and was second oldest in his family of 13 children. His father, Thomas Jefferson Pickett, was a former slave, and his mother Mary Pickett was part Cherokee Indian .His family moved to
Austin when he was a baby where he attended school until fifth grade. School was poor for blacks back then. As a young man he always found work doing odd jobs such as breaking horses, driving cattle to the market, branding stock, and patrolling the huge ranches in Texas and Oklahoma.By the time he was 18 his family moved to
Taylor, TX there he was able to become a ranch hand and help support his siblings. 

     In the 1880s five of the Pickett brothers joined and opened their own stock business in Taylor TX. Their job was to break wild horses. One day Bill woke up and found he was blind and it might have been from bronco busting or from an infection he caught. By that time he was married and was responsible for several children. The ailment persisted for a year and then one day it disappeared.          

        Bill was famous for his rodeo abilities. His first manager was a man by the name of Lee Moore.Moore was the first to take Bills demo out of
Texas into states such as Kansas, and Oklahoma. In 1903 he signed on with Doug McClure, he gave Bill the nickname the Dusky Demon.

     1n 1905 Will Rogers introduced Bill to Zack Miller an owner of 101 ranches in Bliss,Oklahoma. Miller was looking for talent to fill his roster of the Wild West show.Miller persuaded Bill to come to the ranch and perform in the show; he was promised a full time job off season. This began the longest most fruitful partnership in history of Wild West shows.

     Bill Pickett died on April 2, 1932, after being kicked in the head by a half wild horse. He was buried outside the boundaries of the 101 ranch in a cemetery.

     Bill did not come from a tribe because he was a Blackman. If he had been a white man he would have been inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. He was finally named in the hall of fame as of 1971, 40 years after his death.

I got my information from Google and New Book of Knowledge.

Alice Mary Robertson is very important to
Oklahoma.  She was a member of congress, a welfare worker and she started a Tulsa university.When her term in congress expired in 1923 she entered the veterans’ hospital at Muskogee and for two years served as a welfare worker.  Later she went to Washington as a correspondent for the Muskogee News. For the next seven years she lived at her country place near Muskogee and operated it as “Sawokla Dairy farm” She is from the Cherokee tribe. It is in the East West region in the
U.S. She attended school at Elmira College in New York. She started in 1871 and continued until 1873.Compelled to leave before graduating in order to provide the education of her sister; she received from the college the honorary degree of A.M. in 1886. She did a lot of stuff in her time; most of it was for soldiers and men in the war. Her work attracted so many people that Alice was elected to Congestion the republican ticket from the second Oklahoma district. She was also taught at schools but I wanted to know why she is famous.Chose Alice Robertson is because I attend Alice Robertson School and wanted to know more about she and what happened in her life. And how her is named after our school Alice Robertson Elementary!Where I got my informationFrom the computer. Yes she is dead she died with ill health on Jan. 2, 1931

My report is on a famous football player named Troy Aikman. He is one of the best football players. He is still living. He is famous for football and he is great. Troy Aikman is not from a tribe. Troy Aikman has played for OU .he loves sports especially football. He is a great football player. He had played baseball. Troy Aikman threw for a rookie record 379 yards against Phoenix, Arizona. He wanted to play for two collages OU and OULC Bruins. He grew up in Cerritos, California. He went to Henrietta high School. He is a sports Caster on fox net work. He has three awards they are the 1988 Dave O’Brian award, 1992 Super Bowl MVP, and 1997 Walter Payton award. He has the Dallas ring of honor. Troy Aikman played for Dallas Cowboys from 1989-2000. I chose this person because he is a great football player. He played for Dallas. He was the only interesting person to chose. I also like football too. I used the book Troy Aikman Things Change.             

Oklahoma is where most Creek Native American’s live today it is much different from their homes but the sunsets are just beautiful. Some Creek still hunt with a bow and arrows as their ancestors did. The creek women show their grandkids how to weave a basket. The creek play a game called stickball, stickball demands courage, speed and skill. Cool fact (Creek Indians are also known as the Muskogee United Tribes).The Creek split up in two divisions by the 1700s.The Creek was infiltrated by white frontiersman .In 1832 Creek leaders made a trey with the United States and creed with other lands. In 1884 the Seminole war began. In all native tribes women do all the work. Most Creek use maps to get around. The Creek Indians consented more than one tribe of Indians. They all banded together and withdrew from all other tribes during the 1500s.  I got my recourses off of google and creek Indians.