Editing Steer wrestling (section)

==Origins==
[[Image:Cowboy Morgan Evans.jpg|thumb|220px|left|[[Cowboy Morgan Evans]], 1927 world-champion bulldogger]]

The origins of steer wrestling or "bulldogging" date back to [[Ancient Greece]] in bull-fighting events known as ''taurokathápsia'' (ταυροκαθάψια), where bull fighters on horseback would chase a bull and jump on it, grasping its horns before wrestling it to the ground.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thessalonica |first1=Philippus of |title=The Greek anthology: The garland of philip and some sontemporary epigrams |date=1968 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=London |page=359 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i308AAAAIAAJ&q=Thessalians%20overthrow |access-date=16 August 2023}}</ref> In ''The Garland of Phillip'', [[Philippus of Thessalonica]] recounts how the bullfighters of [[Ancient Thessaly|Thessaly]] performed this feat: <blockquote>The well-mounted troupe of bull-fighters from Thessaly, armed against the beasts with no weapons but their hands, spur their horses to run alongside the galloping bull, bent on throwing round its neck the noose of their arms. At the same time pulling it towards the ground by thus hanging themselves at the end of its neck and weighing down its head, they roll over even such a powerful brute”<ref>{{cite web |last1=Paton |first1=W.R. |title=PHILIPPUS OF THESSALONICA : EPIGRAMS |url=http://www.attalus.org/poetry/philippus.html#GP54 |website=Attalus |access-date=16 August 2023}}</ref></blockquote>

Historically, steer wrestling was not a part of ranch life. The event originated in the 1890s, and is claimed to have been started by a [[Black cowboys|Black cowboy]] named [[Bill Pickett]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bill Pickett |website=National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum |url=https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/collections/awards/rodeo-hall-of-fame/inductees/5074/ |date=<!--Not stated--> |access-date=February 11, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Beyoncé's Grammy-winning Cowboy Carter highlights the long history of Texas' Black cowboy culture |url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240404-beyoncs-cowboy-carter-highlights-the-long-history-of-texas-black-cowboy-culture |last=Brown |first=Lynn |website=BBC |date=February 4, 2025 |access-date=February 11, 2025}}</ref> a wild-west show performer said to have caught a runaway steer by wrestling it to the ground.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://classicrodeo.freeservers.com/features.html|title=Classic Rodeo Productions: Events. Web site accessed February 8, 2008|access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref> The several versions of the story have some claiming that he developed the idea after he observed how cattle dogs (especially bulldogs) worked with unruly animals.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Coppedge|first1=Clay|title=Never Another Like Bill Pickett|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/ClayCoppedge/Bill-Pickett-and-Bulldogging.htm|website=www.texasescapes.com|publisher=Welcome to Texas Escapes|access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref>