July 21, 2022
Story by Dan Ariaz It’s a marvel a career in fighting bulls would lead to a career in fighting the most dangerous insect on earth. The feared mosquito infects hundreds of millions of humans worldwide and kills millions a year. When the bucking chute opened, a door to save millions…
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June 23, 2022
Roland ‘Butch’ Tirelli was born January 14, 1941 in the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City to Rachel Lopez and Frank Tirelli. Butch grew up in Brooklyn. Although his father was not in his daily life, he did have an ‘off and on’ relationship with him. Butch’s mother married a…
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May 23, 2022
"There’s just something about getting on one of those horses and having them do the best he can, and you yourself do well.” Good horses, whether they are saddle broncs, roping horses or cutters, are what make Don Lee Smith’s world go round. The Texas native spent the first part…
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April 25, 2022
Because of her grandfather, Dallas Hunt George began a lifelong love of horses, rodeo and rodeo queening. Born in Lincoln, Neb. in 1938, the now-Arizona resident served as the first Miss Rodeo Nebraska in 1956 and then as the 1957 Miss Rodeo America, at age eighteen. But eight years prior,…
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March 23, 2022
“He was extremely fast from the horse to the calf, he was well mounted, and he was a competitor. He wanted to beat you and still be good friends while doing it.” Roy Rodriguez let his actions speak louder than his words. Whether it was in the rodeo arena, on…
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March 2, 2022
“Something about me never wanted to work for somebody else,” says Lavonna “Shorty” Koger. The owner of world-famous Shorty’s Caboy Hattery in Oklahoma City, she forged the path of becoming one of the best-loved Western hatters in the country—one of few women to do so. Before Shorty’s skilled hands knew…
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February 2, 2022
C.R. Hall didn’t let anything get in the way of his dream of being a rodeo cowboy. Including the color of his skin. The black bareback rider and steer wrestler was raised in New York City and never got on a horse till his high school years. Then, through hard…
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December 2, 2021
Shawn Davis has spent his life in the western or equine business with his biggest impact being in the sport of professional rodeo and specifically the National Finals Rodeo. Born Dec. 7, 1940, in Butte, Montana, Davis bought his RCA card in 1962 (RCA became the PRCA in 1975) and…
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LaTonne Sewalt remembers the first barrel race she was in at Comanche, Texas. She was 9 years old and was riding her horse, Little Joe, just for fun, on a trick-riding saddle her folks had given her. She wasn’t even in western clothes, she was wearing shorts! The barrel race…
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June 14, 2021
As a young girl, Sherry Price Combs Johnson spent her days on horseback, riding bareback, playing “cowboys and Indians” or “bad guys,” with her bb gun on her family’s ranch near Addington, Oklahoma. Little did she know the hours spent on horseback would spill over into thousands of hours in…
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November 4, 2020
As a kid, all Bob Hagel wanted to do was be horseback. The saddle bronc rider, now a resident of Mobridge, S.D., was born on Feb. 25, 1935 and grew up in Ft. Pierre, riding horses at his maternal uncle’s ranch every minute he wasn’t in school. When he was…
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October 5, 2020
“I’m pretty talkative and used to edit a magazine, so it just made sense to write a book,” said Roy Lilley, the 90 year old rough stock rider from Fort Collins, Colorado, who wrote a 567 page memoir called Just As I Am. The book took three years to complete.…
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