Trivia

Pictured on one of a set of 20 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating Legends of the West, issued 18 October 1994. A set of twenty 19¢ US postcards with pictures of the stamps was issued on the same date. Other persons honored in the two sets are Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill Cody (as Buffalo Bill), William Tilghman, Jim Bridger, Wyatt Earp, John C. Fremont, William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson, Chief Joseph, Wild Bill Hickok, Kit Carson, Geronimo, Charles Goodnight, Nellie Cashman, Sacajawea and Jim Beckwourth.

First African-American cowboy movie star.

Greatest African-American rodeo star of his era.

First African-American to be inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the Rodeo Historical Society (a support group of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum) in 1971.

Originator of bulldogging/steer wrestling (1903).

Inducted into Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1989.

Texas Trail Hall of Fame inductee in 1997.

Has nine children.