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Some cowboys are tougher then others-

Jesse Stahl was a major saddle bronc rider, but because he was black Stahl never won. At the  Salinas Rodeo in California in 1912 , he'd clearly bested his competitors, Stahl was awarded second place. To mock the judges, he rode a second horse while facing backward. A spectacular ride by Stahl, on a previously un-ridden bucking horse called "Glass Eye" was one of the highlights of the show. He repeated his triumph by riding another notorious bucker, "Tar Baby," backwards with a suitcase in his hand. Stahl retired in 1929 and was probably the most famous black cowboy of all time. Another black cowboy, Ty Stokes, and Jesse Stahl rode a bucking horse seated back to back it was what was called "a suicide ride."  Some rodeo enthusiast consider Jesse Stahl the greatest of all bronco riders. Jesse Stahl retired in 1929 and died in Sacramento, California in 1935.  He is remembered today as a peerless roughrider. He was posthumously inducted into Oklahoma City’s Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1979, only the second black cowboy (after Bill Pickett) to receive that honor. -