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K-STATE'S RON WILSON NAMED AMBASSADOR FOR NATIONAL MULTICULTURAL 1xbet online games login HERITAGE MUSEUM

MANHATTAN -- Ron Wilson, a Kansas cowboy poet and rural development specialist at Kansas State University, has been named the first outreach ambassador of the National Multicultural 1xbet online games login Heritage Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

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"I am honored to receive this designation, which is really an opportunity to celebrate the men and women of many cultures who helped build the American West," Wilson said. "From the Buffalo Soldiers to the Spanish vaqueros to Bill Pickett, who invented bulldogging, we find many examples of cowboys of color and Hispanics who enriched 1xbet online games login history."

Wilson is director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at K-State. He also writes and performs cowboy poetry and studies 1xbet online games login history.

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