Malcolm Dickinson will portray Bill Pickett at the annual Little Wrangler Round-up in October. Youngsters should grab their boots, spurs, cowboy hats and lariats to get ready for the Keystone Square Museum's Little Wrangler Round-up.

The event is Oct. 10 for youths ages 4 to 8, who are invited with their parents and guardians to gather at the museum (303 S. Western St.) for photos on Ole Splinter.

At 10 a.m., the group will head to the Lampasas Public Library at the corner of First and Western streets for biscuits and juice, live music, cowboy stories and lasso tricks.

Buddy Ferguson, Harold Harton and others will entertain with traditional cowboy songs. Kerry Raish will cook cowboy biscuits over an open fire, and Malcolm Dickinson will appear as Bill Pickett, the African-American cowboy who invented the bull-dogging technique.

Dickinson's biography of Pickett, "Bill Pickett: Bull Dogging King of the Rodeo," is on sale at the museum.

The free event coincides with the annual Herb & Art Fest on Courtyard Square.

For more information, phone 556-2224.