![]() ![]() We pulled our two-horse trailers with cars. ![]() Back in those days, they didn’t make pickups good enough to pull trailers very good. I was more concerned with raising my family than going off rodeoing. I went to work for the state of Colorado as a livestock inspector in 1961, and just went to a few amateur rodeos close to home for years. Q : What was it like to rodeo with and make the NFR with your 15-year-old son?Ī: It’s been a good ride. I was fortunate to have good partners-guys like George Draper and Gus Webb-and win pretty regularly. So me and some of my friends started entering the team tying. For 15 years, all I did was rope calves and ride bareback horses at the amateur rodeos.Ī: After I got married-on April 19, 1958-team roping got to our country in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but it was team tying. They had ribbon roping instead of team roping when I was in college. I also rode a lot of match races, which are basically side bets where someone says, “My horse can outrun your horse.” As a kid and in college, I roped calves, rode bulls and bareback horses, and a few saddle broncs. I rode racehorses at fair meets in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas. I only weighed 100 pounds when I graduated from high school. ![]() My dad (Raymond) roped calves some, so my two brothers and two sisters and me learned to rope calves. I grew up milking cows every morning, and separating the cream. My dad was a farmer-we raised sorghum, alfalfa, and sugar beets and ran a few head of cattle. Q : Where did you grow up, and what was your childhood like?Ī: I was raised in the eastern part of the state in McClave, near Lamar. ![]()
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