Happy, Texas, is a very small town in west Texas, south of Amarillo. That’s where Wes and younger brother Wyatt, grew up and caught the calf-roping bug. In the beginning, without cattle, the boys would sit on their horses in the yard and rope the dummy. Once they got calves,…
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Gary Mefford found his vocation as a sophomore in high school in 1974, working part time at King Ropes in Sheridan, Wyoming. He started out tying knots and rapidly expanded to tying burners and picking up orders. Nearly 43 years later, he knows the shop like one of his favorite…
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Roping is in her blood – literally. Bailey (Cooper) Peterson, daughter of 7-time world champ, Clay O’Brien Cooper. Bailey grew up in Higley, Arizona where she lived until the age of eight. After a couple of years living in Idaho, the family made the move to Texas. A few years…
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Chad Masters can’t remember a time when he didn’t rope. He does recall that he was about five years old when started roping horseback. Chad grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee where his dad, Bobby, a Pepsi executive, trained calf horses and his mom, Debbie, worked at the post office. Chad…
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Growing up, T. J. Jones knew from an early age he wanted to be a cowboy, a real cowboy. At the age of ten, his dad bought some property in the country and built an arena for his older brother to practice bulldogging. Not long afterwards, the Jones had some…
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Brian Doty grew up in the small town of Joshua, a few miles south of Ft. Worth. Brian attributes his love of all things cowboy to the time he spent with his calf roping uncle, Richard Doty, and cousins, Ricky and Rocky Doty. As a youngster Brian spent as much…
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A big part of a sales rep job is traveling and being away from home. Ryan Pratt travels fifteen to twenty days each month as a rep for Nocona, American Hats, and Fast Back Ropes. Ryan, 42, lives in Shelbyville, Tennessee, with fiancé, Kristen, and his “territory” includes Tennessee, Kentucky,…
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Most ropers only dream of winning the kind of money paid at the World Series of Team Roping finale in Las Vegas. Those dreams recently came true for Shane Brown, Robstown, TX, and his partner, J. R. Wood, Sinton, TX. The duo won the #13 on December 6th, splitting $254,000.…
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Everyone who enters the USTRC Finals has dreams of clean runs and big paychecks. Unfortunately, only a handful of ropers realize those dreams. One such dream come true was Courtney Small, and header, Lari Dee Guy, who came from third high call to win the Cruel Girl Roping. The pair…
Read MoreBlake Teixeira grew up in a ranching family near Salinas, California, where he spent much of his youth with his grandpa who roped and raised horses. As a youngster he roped with his family at local jackpots in lieu of Junior Rodeo. In high school he qualified for the National…
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Butchie Levell (Butch Levell III) has gone to a lot of USTRC ropings in order to be tied for first with Keith Elkins from Clinton, Louisiana, in the Scholarship Standings. If he holds onto that lead until the end of the Finals, he will win $10,000 in scholarships. The 18-year-old…
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As a kid, Justin Loya had big dreams. Just not the NFR dreams most rodeo kids have. From the age of five, Justin craved baseball. Both parents, Sam and Marilyn, competed in rodeo and as a youngster Justin roped calves, winning the Tie Down title in New Mexico Junior Rodeo…
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