“I would go into the bars and I would hang out and the white cowboys, they would look at me like, ‘Well you’re No. 1, but Myrtis Dightman should’ve won the world,' " Sampson recalled.

The annual journey to the Houston Rodeo offers a corrective to the reductionist narrative that pop culture has long perpetuated. One overcast December morning at the 7W Youth Riding Club stables ...

There were also special guests, Mexican Cowgirl, Melanie Rivera, bull-riding legend, Myrtis Dightman, Jr., known as the “Jackie Robinson of Rodeo,” Miss Rodeo Texas Princess 2004 and Miss ...