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In the thick of it

“You have all seen at variSan Antonio, Doubleday was ous times wonderful pictures of the official arena photographer.

Cowboys and Cowgirls on buckDoubleday used and coning horses, in every kind of sport tinued to make modifications Photographer Doubleday remembered connected with a horse or a steer. to a 5X7 plate portrait Graflex You have seen buckers in the most Camera, circa 1880, with a 500for pioneering rodeo action shots inconceivable shapes. You marspeed roller-blind shutter to veled at the picture as much as you which he added rubber bands to did the boy or girl that was on the horse, give higher tension. He rarely shot faster because sometimes they wasn’t. You said than 1/500 second, because he wanted to to yourself, ‘Where in the world was the show a slight bit of movement to show photographer when he shot that?’ Well, action, not to freeze the motion. this bird I am introducing you to right now Doubleday’s camera, converted into is the one that has taken 90 percent of the a 12-exposure magazine camera, had no good rodeo pictures ever made.” diaphragm for regulation of the aperture, That’s how Will Rogers introduced so all shots were photographed “wide the rodeo photographer Ralph R. Doubleopen.” He added focal length by mountday in 1926 in his McNaught Syndicate ing a cigar box to the camera, and while column. he never measured it, he rated it as a Rodeo promoter, agent and histo17-inch lens. The bellows had been torn rian Foghorn Clancy called Doubleday many times and patched with tire tape, the undisputed World’s Champion Rodeo plaster and chewing gum. Because he Photographer, writing, “…not many phonever used a telephoto lens, Doubleday tographers would risk camera and film, Bonnie Grey on her horse King Tut jump a vehicle - a on more than one occasion had the camnot to mention life and limb, trying to get popular event featured in Doubleday's photos. Photo era knocked from his hands by livestock courtesy Wyoming State Archives, Department of State and trampled. Consequently, because action pictures.”

Although it’s widely known that Dou- Parks and Cultural Resources. struts in the viewing hood were dambleday was one of the great rodeo photographers, much less is known aged, Doubleday propped the hood open with a stick. The lack of sunabout the man himself – most of today’s records come from newspaper or magazine articles, with Doubleday himself as the primary source of information. To make matters worse, he was known for bending the truth about his participation in certain events, including General Pershing’s pursuit of Pancho Villa and a safari to Africa with Of Doubleday, rodeo announcer Foghorn President Roosevelt.

Clancy said, “…there is something of a mystery Through genealogical research about him, he seems to possess some subtle by the National Cowboy and Westcharm for the ladies, at every rodeo it's the ladies ern Heritage Museum, it’s been that come asking if Doubleday is there or going to determined that Doubleday was be there. I wouldn't call them sweethearts nor his probably born as Edward Cochran association with them on July 4, 1881 in Jackson County, love affairs, they just Iowa. As to how he came up with seem to be staunch his new surname, it’s said he had feminine friends who always felt like he worked 24 hours enjoy his company, a day. He was known as Doubleday but many a cowboy as early as 1910. has wondered why In the early 1900s Doubleday the ladies will rave began to develop his interest in phoabout the swell ride tography, and freelancing led him of a champion bronk to Cheyenne Frontier Days on Aug. rider, or the fast time 27, 1910, where he made his first made by a bulldogprofessional mark, capturing C.B. ger, and then stroll Irwin’s grey bucking horse, named away with the pho“Teddy Roosevelt,” throwing his Ralph Russell Doubleday with his rider, Gus Nylen. It’s believed to tographer.” camera, circa 1955. The camera be the first action shot of a cowboy It could have been was modified with rubber bands, being thrown from a bronc, and the his female friends tire tape, plaster and chewing gum. that led to Doubleevent encouraged the young photogPhoto courtesy Wyoming State Arday’s wide collecrapher to specialize in photography. chives, Department of State Parks tion of cowgirl photos, Throughout the ensuing decades, and Cultural Resources. which have inspired Doubleday, who took up residence an exhibit at the in Cheyenne, enhanced his reputation as a rodeo photographer, pictoKitty Canutt, Prairie Rose Henderson and National Cowboy and Ruth Roach at the Pendleton Round-Up, rially recording and unintentionally documenting the history of both Western Heritage of which Doubleday was official arena big and little rodeos. He was a follower of Tex Austin who produced Museum titled “Dou- photographer. Photo courtesy Wyoming rodeos in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Providence, New Haven, bleday’s Cowgirls: State Archives, Department of State Parks Pittsburgh, Washington and London, England. At Calgary, PendleWomen in Rodeo.” and Cultural Resources. ton, Cheyenne, Belle Fourche, Fort Worth, Casper, Deadwood and

Doubleday’s cowgirls

shade was remedied by a rubber band around the lens barrel holding half a postcard as a shade.

While many of his images were sold to magazines and the press, Doubleday’s primary and substantial income came from photographic postcards, which he wholesaled by the millions.

In 1952, “Old Dub,” as he was commonly known, made his last swing around the rodeo circuit, walking with a cane and nearly blind. In an October 1952 issue of Hoofs and Horns magazine, Doubleday declared, “Retiring because of poor vision after taking pictures at more than three hundred Rodeos over a period of 45 years... and after making my last appearance at Broken Bow, Nebraska, just recently I shall henceforth endeavor to make it possible for the good public to obtain some of the choicest of my

Rodeo Pictures through the medium of this ad.”

On June 30, 1958 Ralph R. Doubleday died, and he was interred next to his sister, Floria, in an unmarked grave in the Roselawn section of Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Council “This bird I am introducing you Bluffs, Iowa on July 1.

In recognition of his to right now is the one that has photographic accom- taken 90 percent of the good plishments and his pro- rodeo pictures ever made.” – motional and documen- Will Rogers, writing about tary activities in rodeo, Ralph R. Doubleday in 1926. the Rodeo Historical Society inducted him into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame’s Rodeo Hall of Fame on Nov. 27, 1988.

Article compiled through information from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

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On the Cover A Doubleday photo of Ted McCroy on “Dodger” in 1926. Photo courtesy Wyoming State Archives, Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.

One of Doubleday's postcards, of which he sold millions, featured this group of cowgirls at the 1924 Pendleton Round-Up. Photo courtesy Wyoming State Archives, Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.

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Redirection R An inmate at the Honor Farm works with a wild horse. The Honor Farm’s training program has gentled 3,600 head since the program started 23 years ago.

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There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

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Honor Farm and Ranch Manager Joe Crofts stands beside two horses being gentled in the Honor Farm’s wild horse training program. Melissa Hemken photo

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“We work with a lot of people age 25 or older who have never had a job, so teaching the basics of a work ethic is important.” – Honor Farm and Ranch Manager Joe Crofts on the benefits of the wild horse training program

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Honor Farm program changes lives of horses, men

iverton – As you pull through the gate at Wyoming Department of Correction’s Honor Farm in Riverton, a horse statue bears a plaque that reads: “There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. – Winston Churchill.”

For 23 years the BLM has contracted with the Honor Farm to have inmates at the all-male, minimum-security prison facility gentle wild horses. The Honor Farm has handled approximately 3,600 wild horses, with the highest-priced horse at an adoption event selling for $5,075.

“We have found that the best way to have wild horses adopted is to have them handled and gentled,” says Scott Fluer, BLM Wild Horse Specialist. “We’ve gotten away from adopting truly wild horses. The Honor Farm was first of its kind, and now Nevada and Colorado have wild horse training programs at prison facilities.”

The Honor Farm was established in 1931 and currently has 174 wild horses at the 1,008-acre facility, and all inmates are required to work their choice of one of 18 jobs on the farm.

“Within the ag side of the farm, inmates share duties where most needed,” explains Honor Farm and Ranch Manager Joe Crofts. “We just finished calving our 400 mother cows, and in the summer we bale about 40,000 small squares from 350 acres in hay production. We’re real fortunate that we have a lot of manual labor; we feed all small bales and pitched about 1,400 tons of silage this winter by hand.

“We teach many soft skills through agriculture work – being to work on time and being responsible will help them in other jobs. We work with a lot of people age 25 or older who have never had a job, so teaching the basics of a work ethic is important.”

“We are blessed to have a director who doesn’t want to make money,” says Crofts, a 25-year veteran of the Honor Farm. “He just wants to break even, pay the feed costs and create jobs for the inmates. Our director really sees the value of putting this many men to work and providing them with valuable skills.”

“The average stay for an inmate is 11 months,” Crofts says. “It is really rewarding for the guys to be able to watch a horse go from not being able to stand human presence in a large corral to being totally trusting of humans. Adoption day can be really hard on the inmates because they become bonded with the horses they gentle.”

Jeff Martin is the Honor Farm Horse Supervisor, and has been working in Corrections for 13 years. He moved into his current position three years ago, and has brought in Buck Brannaman, Ray Hunt and Clint Anderson groundwork methods.

“The biggest challenge at the beginning was that I could get a horse to do something easily, but it was a lot harder to have another person achieve that same thing,” Martin recalls. “Currently I’m working with 18 inmates here on ‘horse hill.’ Last winter I had 42 guys working with me, and that was a challenge to keep that many busy, focused and working as a team.”

“One thing I’ve learned is that wild horses bond quickly to the guy who has earned their trust, and then no one else can touch that horse,” Martin says. “So we specifically shift horses around so they learn to trust all humans.”

Martin finds it very rewarding to see how the men change and learn how to work with the wild horses. Inmates begin by learning how to care for the horses, and how to work a horse from the ground, before learning how to ride.

“I always tell the guys that if we can’t halter a horse, pick up their feet, groom it, and have it in and out of the trailer, then we shouldn’t be riding it. I want the horse to want the person to hop on and go somewhere,” he says.

When the BLM brings a load of horses to the farm, Martin and his crew first get them accustomed to people through feeding and doing chores around the corrals. The horses are then put in the large arena and moved around on horseback to give them some pressure. Martin then progresses to moving a group around in a smaller pen, and eventually the inmates work them individually in round pens.

“We are the Department of Corrections and we ultimately want to correct human behavior,” Martin says. “We are really blessed to have the Honor Farm Horse Supervisor Jeff Marhorses available to help us tin has 18 inmates currently working with do that.” him to gentle 174 wild horses. Melissa “I often say I have the Hemken photo best job in the world, because I get to see positive changes in men and horses every day,” says Martin.

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heyenne – Because tourism thrives on media attention, for the past seven years the Wyoming Office of Tourism has sponsored Wyoming’s professional cowboys in exchange for their focused promotion of the state.

According to Wyoming Office of Tourism Director Diane Shober, the program began with Wyoming bareback rider Kelly Timberman, who won the world championship in 2004.

“The year he won he came to us and presented a program for sponsorship, and we decided it’d be a great way to take a cowboy and personify him with the American cowboy, and to identify him with Wyoming’s positioning as ‘Forever West’ – a place where people can still see cowboys doing things they did 100 years ago,” says Shober.

The following year Wyoming team roper Jhett Johnson contacted the office, offering his horse trailer as a traveling billboard.

“That’s where it’s started, and from there it’s evolved to where it is today,” says Shober.

“We realized that, with a public relations effort, we could take these guys and have them branded under Wyoming, and they could put a face and a voice to the American cowboy,” she continues of how the program fits the tourism brand. “Cowboys represent freedom, romance, mystery and entrepreneurship, and those are all the things that intrigue people. What resonated years ago still resonates today, and this program is a way to tie into the overall message.”

“When people see the Wyoming patch, they’re really curious about it, or they comment on how they’ve been there and how beautiful it is,” says saddle bronc rider Chet Johnson, who has been with the program since 2007. “We promote the state as a great place to live and a great place to visit. Many people don’t know the points to hit when they visit, so we help them with that, suggesting things they need to see.”

Currently the Wyoming Office of Tourism sponsors 10 Wyoming cowboys and one bullfighter.

“We couldn’t be more proud to work with a finer set of athletes, and it’s been really fun and rewarding,” says Shober.

Because of a limited budget and the desire for visibility and the greatest media value, the criteria for sponsorship in the program include a PRCA membership, a Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (WNFR) qualification and active competition.

Program participants are required to do a certain number of media interviews for paid incentives.

“The cowboys are professionals, and their own product, so we want to help them leverage their athletic ability and themselves. We help them, because we want as much coverage as they do,” says Shober of the business marketing aspect of rodeo.

“We focus on non-residents and driving outside dollars into our state, so we’re constantly looking for media attention, and we’ve worked hard with the group of guys so they understand putting the word ‘Wyoming’ in their interviews,” says Shober.

“I like talking about Wyoming, so it’s not a hard assignment,” says Johnson. “And I’m proud of the state, so it’s a good job.”

Of the program evaluation from year to year, Shober says it never brings in a given amount, but she says, “As long as it continues to work and our budget remains stable, we’ll continue to invest.”

A software system based on keywords is used to evaluate each cowboy’s media and public relations attention.

“We track all of our media values, and we pull down reports with each of their names and we value those, whether they’re on a blog, in a newspaper story or a TV interview. We track the media value of what they’re doing, and they have minimums they have to hit,” describes Shober.

The cowboys receive an $8,000 stipend over the course of 10 months from January through October, and are paid incentives for media coverage. They have to hit a minimum of two media interviews, with a maximum of 10, and are paid $250 per interview. If they get a high-profile media interview in a key market, they get $1,000, and if they qualify for the WNFR they are paid another $8,000.

The current program budget is right around $200,000 each year, and that also funds other promotions and events through the cowboy marketing program, like Cowboy Christmas at the WNFR and appearances at the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo.

“They’re all doing a terrific job. They’ve really worked hard, and this entire group of guys has been with us for at least two years now, and some for much longer than that,” says Shober.

“The program is a nice fit with our Wyoming roots and our Western heritage.”

Johnson adds that Wyoming is unique in its sponsorship program, and that it’s had such positive feedback that other states have started to take notice and are looking to start their own programs.

Christy Martinez is managing editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup and can be reached at christy@wylr.net.

Talking tourism Wyoming cowboys promote their state

Wyoming’s professional cowboys sponsored by the Wyoming Office of Tourism:

Jason Miller, Lance Creek steer wrestler

Chet Johnson, Gillette saddle bronc rider

Kelly Timberman, Casper bareback rider

Clayton Savage, Cheyenne bull rider

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Bobby Welsh, Gillette bull rider

Team Members Not Pictured: Bobby Harris, Gillette – team roper • Jhett Johnson, Casper – team roper Les Shepperson, Midwest – steer wrestler • Seth Glause, Rock Springs – bull rider Dusty Tuckness, Meeteetse – bull fighter

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"We promote the state as a great place to live and a great place to visit." - Wyoming saddle bronc rider Chet Johnson

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Dusty arenas, “My parents were riding good instrumental in helping horses and earning a win me learn to rope better,” with your family cheershe says. “When I was in ing from the sidelines – college they always made although it almost sounds sure they had some roping like the makings for a counsteers so my brothers and I try song, it is a great way of could practice.” life for Marina Hadley.

Since then, Hadley The Wheatland team has continued to improve roper has come a long way her skills, although now since her days riding horses she mainly competes in through the mountains jackpot ropings with her of her parents’ Grandby, family. She is married to Colo. ranch with her brothTom Hadley, and the couers and sisters, where the ple has two sons, Jhett, 14, siblings also helped their and TC, 12. parents, Eddie and Lorene “Roping has become a Linke, with a rodeo series each year. family activity for us,” she says. “Our boys are learning how to rope Although she had been around rodeo all her life, it wasn’t until now, and it is a lot of fun when we can rope with them.” she was 15 that the team roping bug hit.

When the boys became interested in learning to rope, the Had “At that time, not many girls leys carefully selected a kind and roped,” she explains. “My parents honest horse to help them learn. were somewhat skeptical about it.

“The most important thing for I remember borrowing horses or a young person to have to learn jumping on my brother’s horse so I how to rope is an older horse that could rope.” is solid,” she says. “The horse Fortunately, Hadley knew three needs to be good in the box and girls who were good ropers and able to give you a good shot – no were willing to take her under their bucking or running off. Finding a wings. good ranch horse is a great place to “Kathy Kennedy and Becky and start.”

Jean Fuchs roped a lot and got me “Most of the horses we have really excited about it,” she says. we’ve raised ourselves,” says Had“They competed in roping in colley. “We ride about 12 at a time, TC, Jhett and Marina Hadley enjoy team roping together as lege, so I was excited about roping Tom, and right now only three of those a family. Courtesy photo in college, too.” we have purchased.”

The first obstacle Hadley had to overcome was roping left- In addition to having a good, sound horse, Hadley has also handed. found it helps to find a good teacher, and that it’s important to learn “That was considered a handicap in roping, so one day I switched how to handle a rope. hands and never went back,” she explains.

“When I first started, Although Marina competed in high school rodeo, it wasn’t until I spent hours roping the “We usually try to pick ropings college at UW that she really became interested in roping. dummy, and learning how to where we can rope together “I got to the point where I loved it and just craved it. I would control my rope,” she says. or with our boys. It is a good take advice from anyone who could help me,” she explains.

“My brothers and I would family activity to be able to do Her parents came around, and became two of her biggest sup- play all sorts of games and together.” – Marina Hadley, have roping contests Wheatland team roper on the dummy.”

Hadley’s perseverance in becoming a better roper has earned her many honors over the years.

“In the last 15 years I’ve won seven USTRC saddles, three Wyoming ACTRA saddles, two Flying Heels Rodeo saddles, one MTRA saddle, one WTRC saddle and a HeelO-Matic,” she proudly admits. “I think my success is due to my willingness to prepare to rope, plus having some good luck, too. I think the more prepared you are, the luckier you’ll be.”

She has also enjoyed some nice wins. “A couple years ago I won the Wyoming Rodeo Association year-end award in the mixed roping, and the shoot-out at their finals,” she says. “I also won the High Plains Regional USTRC roping in Cheyenne in 2008, and a saddle in the USTRC # 12 Gold Plus Roping in 2009.”

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At many ropings, she and Tom rope together. “We usually try to pick ropings where we can rope together or with our boys. It is a good family activity to be able to do together,” she says.

With their boys growing up, the Hadleys have let roping events take a backseat to school sports.

“Right now, our biggest focus has been encouraging our kids to play sports. They can rope until they’re 80, but they will only have a chance to play sports at school once. I think it teaches them work ethic and how to compete as a team. Some of the things they learn by playing sports will make them better ropers in the future,” she says.

Hadley has also enjoyed teaching school for the last 20 years, and is a full-time family and consumer sciences teacher at Wheatland High School.

Gayle Smith is a correspondent for the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.

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hroughout a history spanning several decades and many dedicated volunteers, today the Wyoming Rodeo Association (WRA) is thriving with a focus on youth membership.

“We’ve tried to get the youth to come in, and to get the high school kids to become WRA members,” says WRA President Jim McNamee of Burns, who has now led the organization for three years.

The youth division consists of members 18 years old and under, who can buy a youth card at a discounted price.

“We guarantee one youth finalist in each event every year, so if one of the kids hasn’t already made the finals in the top 12 of their event, we’ll then go to the highest youth in the year-end standings, and they get to compete in the finals,” says Britt Bath, also of Burns, who has been involved with the WRA for some time, first as a competitor and now as the tie-down roping director, a position he’s held for five years.

Bath says the increased membership and participation from young people has been noticeable.

“It’s really nice to see those kids, who still have to compete against the adults, but there’s a chance for them to make the finals and win money, and you can see that drive them throughout the year.

They stay hooked,” he notes.

In addition to guaranteeing youth competitors in the finals, the WRA also recognizes the highest money-earning boy and girl with a belt buckle for each, and beginning in 2010 they also received a scholarship.

“We’ve felt that building the youth is a grassroots thing, where we get them interested, then it becomes a habit for them to be members, and when they become adults they have some pride in the association for having been a member,” says Bath.

“The last couple years we’ve had a girl who has made the finals in barrel racing, and the first time she did she was in eighth grade,” adds Bath. “And the same thing has happened in team roping and calf roping, with more high school kids making the finals. It’s a place for them to compete with the adults, and it gives them a reason to step up.”

In addition to the youth involvement, McNamee says the $11,000 in added money at the finals, which are held in Torrington each November, has encouraged PRCA cowboys from Colorado and Wyoming to compete in WRA rodeos. A shoot-out round during the finals has also made the event more dynamic.

“When Jim became president, the shoot-out round at the finals was one of the first things we re-implemented,” says Bath, who explains that the top six in each event come back for a sudden-death finals champion. “It’s all on one run or ride to be the shoot-out champion of the finals, and it’s brought some excitement into it.”

McNamee says in 2010 the number one competitor, from a $300 entry fee, won over $4,500 in the shoot-out round, held Saturday night of the finals.

“Many people have put in a lot of work with the association, and it can be a thankless job, but every time a new president or someone new takes over, I see some new ideas and new energy,” says Bath, who credits McNamee with keeping the WRA’s traditional ideas while adding some of his own.

“In the last few years there have been a lot of changes to slowly build the associ- “In the last few years there have ation, and the more we build the more members we get, and been a lot of changes to slowly the more we can do with it,” says McNamee. build the association, and the Today, through first-approved rodeos, co-sanctioned more we build the more memrodeos with the Colorado and Nebraska rodeo associations and co-sanctioned open rodeos, the WRA offers its members bers we get, and the more we can do with it.” – WRA Presi50 or 60 events in which to compete.

“Our goal is to improve the existing events before we try dent Jim McNamee to add more,” says McNamee, adding that eventually he’d like more existing rodeos around the state to become WRAsanctioned. “We’ve got over 300 paid members going to rodeos for our finals, so now we feel like we have something to offer.”

“One of our biggest goals, with four-dollar diesel, is to give Wyoming people rodeos they can go to without travelling 300 or 500 miles,” adds McNamee.

“There have been many people who have really helped build the WRA,” says McNamee. “It’s taken the efforts of some very dedicated directors to build the WRA to where it is now.”

Christy Martinez is managing editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup and can be reached at christy@wylr.net.

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pton – Steve Langer was raised with horses, and says he I were riding around at this clinic, and he said to me that he’d been probably likes them more than anybody should. In addition thinking, and I asked what about, and he replied, ‘This relationship to breaking and riding horses, Langer also uses their influ- he talks about getting with that horse, wouldn’t that be something ence on his life in combination with his love for the Lord to posi- if you could get that with God?’ And that just reinforced what I had tively impact others. been told.

“When I was a kid my dad had a “I saw that man about a year and a stud, so we always raised horses. He half later, and I told him how what he said that as long as he could get the price had said to me had impacted and reinof a yearling steer for a weanling foal he forced what I had been going through, would raise horses, and we raised them and that it had virtually opened up my the entire time I was growing up,” says Bible and changed our lives for the betLanger of his upbringing. ter. That man looked at me like, ‘I have “I broke my first horse at nine years no idea what you’re talking about.’ old, and there were a whole lot of things God was just talking through him. that weren’t quite right there, but we got “That was one of the greatest by and we survived and we learned to impacts the horse has had in my life. I chase cows,” notes Langer of when he truly believe that I’m an example that if started breaking horses. you get serious about finding out who Since that first horse, Langer has God is and what he wants, he will put always had at least one young horse Chica is one of Steve Langer’s mares, and also one of it in language you cannot miss,” says going. He has ridden outside horses, but his all-time favorite horses. “This mare would be very, Langer of the experience. says he prefers to find a young horse, very good if she were exposed to the extensive riding “A young horse gives you something ride it for two or three years, and then and cow work I used to do, and is one of the top horses to look forward to, too. When those I’ve ever had,” he says about the sorrel mare he cur- buggers start looking at a cow and find it a home.

Among his horse-related experi- rently uses. Heather Hamilton photo thinking about what the cow’s going to ences, Langer says one particular Ray Hunt clinic stands out in his do next, it really makes you smile,” he says of what he loves about mind. breaking and riding young horses.

“For some reason I signed up, and when I went I was just “I use the round pen, and think it has become one of the greatexpecting to learn about horses. I was lying in my bunk, proba- est horse tools we’ve been handed, because we used to believe that bly about the third night, trying to absorb all this horse information whatever the horse did that wasn’t what we expected was rebelso it wouldn’t just disap- lion. But, I think the round pen has taught us that the horse needs pear on me, and I wasn’t some room to work things out, and that if we’ll give him a chance, really used to spiritual it’s amazing how hard the horse will try to please,” notes Langer of happenings. It was like why he likes the round pen and uses it. someone opened up the “One of the things I feel is underrated in the horse world is top of my head, and there what I call ‘monkey see, monkey do,’” continues Langer. “Before I was nothing audible, but ever ask a horse to stand and be saddled, he will watch me saddle a these words came in. Ray gentle horse first, and I’m here to tell you it matters.”

Hunt stresses that a horse “A young horse will usually get his initiation to the saddle in needs to find this turn- the form of a pack saddle, and the older I get the more valuable that loose, which is when he pack saddle becomes. He’ll probably even go fencing with me. My finally comes up to you knees don’t like to carry me over the hills as well as they used to, and believes that you and I cover the rough country horseback. That young horse will are trustworthy and what carry the fence stretchers and splicing wire. I also have some tubes you’re doing is ok, and made from PVC pipe designed to carry steel posts, and some of my the words that came in young horses get a stint packing those, too,” says Langer of a few Steve Langer’s mare Chica and her filly were, ‘This turn-loose is of the techniques he uses to break horses.

Toni in the summer of 2009. Toni is the “I truly believe that a gentle horse with an extra dose of cow most recent generation in a line of mares how it should be between you and your Lord.’ sense is one of the greatest gifts God ever gave mankind,” conLanger says he particularly enjoys and hopes to keep in production. He notes their “That’s all there was, cludes Langer.

Heather Hamilton is a correspondent for the Wyoming Livenice dispositions and natural cow sense as and I just thought to two traits he especially appreciates. Cour- myself, ‘What was that?’ stock Roundup. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr. tesy photo.

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Jim and his wife Mary now own the Diamond 4 Ranch, “It is so much more rewarding to raise, use and own our where they raise horses and cattle and run horses,” Mary says. “We now have greatan outfitting business in the southern Wind grandkids, and really know the history of River Mountains. Jim’s grandfather, Reed “None of the agencies know all of our horses. We use a blend of QuarAllen, owned the Pine Bar Ranch up the what the other is regulating, ter Horse, Morgan and Percheron bloodNorth Fork Canyon and he also ran one of and they all have different dead- lines.” the first outfitting businesses in the area in lines and forms. It can be really The Allens have a ranch within the the early 1900s.

Shoshone National Forest boundary at “My grandfather never talked much hard to keep up with it all.” – Dickinson Park, where they hold horse about running a guiding service, but he Jim Allen, on over-regulation and cattle grazing permits. At 9,200 feet, would give us advice on how to do stuff, of the outfitting industry it is the highest guest ranch in the state. and to make sure to bring enough pota “We can accommodate more than toes,” remembers Jim. one group at once,” Mary explains. “Often When he was 15 Jim tried to get a job on a ranch in Dubois, there will be a couple pack trips out, and another group that but they wouldn’t hire him because he was too young. His stays at the ranch and does day rides. We have been in the father, who was friends with the mountaineer Paul Petzoldt, business long enough that many of our guests are repeat custold him to ask Petzoldt to see if he could go on a National tomers.”

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Approximately 40 percent of guests at the Diamond 4 “I decided after the course that I wasn’t much of a back- come during hunting season; the remaining 60 percent come packer,” Jim laughs. “So I asked Petzoldt to hire me to horse- for other recreational pursuits, mainly the fishing available at pack food supplies to the NOLS courses in the Winds. That the lakes within the Allens’ permit area. As the Allens operate began a 11-year career with the school, during which I also in the east side of the southern Winds, they do not have a lot managed the NOLS ranch in Boulder.” of encounters with grizzlies and wolves.

Jim met Mary when she first came to Wyoming for a Jim is former president of the Wyoming Dude Ranchers’ Association, a former president and currently on the board of the Wyoming Outfitters’ and Guides’ Association and served in Wyoming’s House of Representative from 2003 to 2004. He Allens enjoy family ranching with guest component now guest teaches government at Lander Valley High School and lobbies for decreased regulation of outfitting businesses.

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“Outfitters are tightly regulated by every state and federal agency,” Jim says. “None of the agencies know what the other is regulating, and they all have different deadlines and forms.

It can be really hard to keep up with it all. We’re regulated on how we camp, how we handle the horses, what activities the people do – it is over-regulation, by far.”

The outfitting business is very competitive and cyclical.

What the Allens offer is what everyone else offers, and it is not easy to get in, stay in and be profitable.

“Our season can be as short as six weeks,” Jim says. “So we have a two-month window to make all our income, but expenses come year round.

“Some traditional ag operations think about adding guests to diversify and increase their cash flow. It is not that easy, as your emphasis has to be on the paying guests over the cows.”

“One great thing about it is that not very many people can have a family business, and ranchers can,” Jim says. “We’ve been really lucky to raise our three girls in this lifestyle and have them work alongside us on the ranch.”

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ackson – After working with Flat Creek Saddle Shop in have another he’s working on now that may not get used as much.

Jackson for a solid 20 years, “But you never know,” he says.

John Bauer purchased the busiAlthough Wade saddles are popuness from Scott Carter five years ago. lar and he builds many of them, Nich “It was one of those things where olson says he likes to make swell fork the opportunity came along, and it just saddles. He says he also builds quite worked out,” says Bauer of the transia few full associations and Stocktion. “I’d been working here forever, man Will James, which his tree maker and I already knew the business really likes. well.”

“They’re a little more of a chal Bauer says the saddle shop is forlenge, and to me that makes them tunate to have customers from all over more interesting,” notes Nicholson. the state, and even surrounding states, “We do a lot of repair work, and a who stop in once or more each year. lot of it comes from far away,” adds In addition, mail-order customers from Bauer. “We try to do a really nice job around the country keep coming back of it, and really do it right, so that because they like what the shop has to Jason Nicholson and John Bauer, saddle maker and when it’s done it looks like the origoffer. shop owner, respectively, work together to keep high inal.”

“Our inventory isn’t all tourist quality working tack in Jackson’s Flat Creek Saddle Of running a business in Jacktrap stuff, because many working peo- Shop. Christy Martinez photo son, Bauer says parking is always an ple come here on their vacations, and issue, as well as rent. they’ll come here to shop,” says Flat Creek Saddle Shop saddle “Things are a little more expensive here, but a lot of people maker Jason Nicholson, who’s also been involved with the busi- come here, too, so we balance it out that way,” he says. “Many ness for many years. Although he was an employee at one time, of our ‘tourists’ aren’t just passing through – the majority make a Jason now runs his own business and works with the shop on a point to come here while they’re on vacation. We’re not in a locacustom basis. tion where there are a lot of people who drive “The tourist part of our business is really by and stop to check us out – we’re just far pretty small. We go for quality, and stick “We try to do a really nice job of enough out of the loop.” with a lot of working tack, and we’ve got a it, and really do it right, so that Of running the saddle shop, Bauer says lot of rodeo people who come in, so we stay when it’s done it looks like the he likes the people, and he really enjoys fitin the loop with team roping and barrel rac- original.” – Flat Creek Saddle ting saddles for customers. The shop genering,” says Bauer.

Shop owner John Bauer, on ally keeps around 200 saddles in stock.

The saddle shop operates on a small staff “On a really good year we’ll sell 500 sadof four year round, and an extra person in the the repair work offered by dles,” says Bauer. “We really put a lot of summer months. In addition to Nicholson, his business emphasis on them, and of those 200 we have who also does some of the bigger repair jobs, in stock, over 50 are custom made, if you Flat Creek also works with an independent chap maker, who has count the used ones, too.” been involved for close to 20 years.

Nicholson estimates he makes a dozen saddles a year, between Of his leatherwork, Nicholson says he’s self-taught and those he sells through the store and his custom orders. started it as a hobby while he worked in Jackson.

“Ideally it’d be 20 or so, but I do a lot of custom and repair “I used to work taking trail rides and wagon and sleigh work to fill in, working 70 hours a week out of my own shop,” he rides, so I started doing leather work and maintenance then. It explains, adding that the custom work includes gun leather, sadwas a slow, steady progression,” he dle repair, headstalls and chap belts, explains. “I didn’t go to a school or as well as around 30 items sold at the have a master mentor – I’ve picked saddle shop. up a lot of things along the way, and Of his business’s future in JackI read and study. I’ve basically just son, Bauer says if Jackson’s operating learned through doing the work and costs were to give him the chance to through my own experience.” expand and improve, he would.

Nicholson’s time and effort spent “We also sell feed, and we have a learning paid off in the 2010 Sherwarehouse about 10 blocks away, and idan Leather Show, where he took I’d love to have everything on one first place in the stamped saddle catsite, but we’ve got to be competitive egory. The saddle that won was sold in price, and I can’t pay some of the a few short months later to a cusoutrageous rent,” he says. tomer who’s now riding it in Sublette Christy Martinez is managing ediCounty. tor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup Shop owner John Bauer says Flat Creek keeps as “I made it to use and work on,” many as 200 saddles in stock at any given time. Christy and can be reached at christy@wylr. says Nicholson, adding that he does Martinez photo net.

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In addition to breeding for the overo color Croells ago, and decided to specialize in the black and pattern, Croell also breeds for performance, notfocus on white overos, because at the time they were ing her horses are bred to be ridden and not just black and coming on really hot and were worth signifistand in a halter line. white cantly more than a plain-colored colt,” explains “The original colored horses the breed started overo Croell. out with were really inferior. They came off the Paints She adds that at the time she and her husPinto breed, and with most of them you didn’t band lived in Iowa, and maintained a labor-intenknow what you had. You could have purchased a sive horse program that included taking in around horse of almost any breed – the stallions had to be 50 outside mares to breed each season. inspected to ensure they weren’t gaited, and most “About 13 years ago my husband decided he had to be a certain height, but beyond that it was a wanted to move to Wyoming, so we loaded up 125 head guess. Most were poor-headed and narrow, and they just of horses and came out here. We thought we would be gentleman didn’t have the quality of the Quarter Horse. ranchers who raised a few horses, and my husband was going to semi- “Throughout the years we’ve had to breed for better horses, which retire,” comments Croell with a chuckle. is more of a challenge when you’re starting with inferior animals. But, A few cattle deals and land purchases later, the Croells found them- we’re also a color breed, so we have to breed a good horse and a colored selves running a large cow-calf operation, and the horse side of the oper- horse, and by the time we get both we eliminate a lot of good colts,” ation dwindled to around 50 broodmares and four stallions. explains Croell.

“That’s where we are right now. I try to sell them all as weanlings “For me, that’s why I breed the overos versus the tobianos, from and market a few yearlings. I try not to keep anywhich you can get a homozygous horse. I like thing past two unless we’re going to ride it, or something where you can’t get the exact result it’s a going to become a broodmare or stallion you’re aiming for 100 percent of the time. With the prospect. I do it for fun – the cattle we run as a overos, when I get something I feel like I really did business and the horses are a sideline of fun,” something. It’s all luck of the draw, but I still enjoy says Croell. it and find it to be more fun,” says Croell.

She markets over 90 percent of her foals She says her favorite times of the year are the using the Internet, and they go across the counspring and summer months, when new foals are try and overseas. born and she can enjoy the foals running with their “We’ve opened up a new market in France mothers. this past year, and it’s been very lucrative for The Croells were also owners of the first Paint us. A lady from Canada comes down and picks horse that stood in New Zealand, and were involved up a trailer load of black and whites, mostly fil- Tina Croell’s grulla Paint mare exhibits the rar- in the Paint Horse Association of New Zealand for lies, and takes them to Canada for 90 days. Then est of all colors among horses, she says, add- about 10 years. she ships them over to France, where they show ing she really likes that grullas maintain their Tina notes that if things slow down in the future them in working ranch horse competitions, bar- coloring throughout the year, and don’t fade as she may pursue showing some of her horses. rel racing and other performance competitions,” black horses sometimes do. Courtesy Photo “I’m not a halter lover as far as raising them, and explains Croell. years ago I didn’t think the black and white overos could compete in Of her domestic market, she says that people like to buy a horse that halter, but today I believe they can compete, so I may try it,” she notes. isn’t located in their back yard.

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(NWBRA) has nearly 500 members from six states: NWBRA is a family-oriented organization and is cenWyoming, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Idaho tered around their members’ love for their horses and the and North Dakota. The annual finals are held in Gillette, increasingly popular sport of barrel racing. and, in 2010, had over $66,000 in cash payout and prizes “Even though a lot of the racers at the finals aren’t awarded in four divisions for nearly diehards, they are tough,” Camp550 racers. bell says. “Quite a few run in the “We are a non-profit associa1D, even though they aren’t career tion geared toward our members,” barrel racers they are very accomsays Annie Campbell of Shoshoni, plished.

NWBRA President and Wyoming “The finals pay down six places Director. “In 2010, we had 200 and 5Ds, allowing more peosanctioned races put on by 40 prople to place and some of the girls Barrel Racing Association ducers.” who won saddles last year were so NWBRA’s mission is to promote thrilled because it was the first time Focused on Members the sport of barrel racing as a famfor them.” ily activity at all levels of competi For the 2010 finals, the open tion. Members pay an annual fee of payout was over $38,000, with $50, and must go to four sanctioned $9,800 in saddles and other prizes races to qualify for the finals. for six places and 5Ds; Seniors, age “I first joined the association 50 and over, received $4,000 in sadabout six years ago,” Campbell says. “I heard from friends dles and prizes, and over $7,000 paying 3Ds; the youth, age how good the finals were the year before, and decided to 15 and under, paid out $4,600 and $2,500 in prizes; and the join. Most of our members compete in NWBRA for the fun peewees, six and under, received $144 in cash, and a stick of it, but there are a few like me who also do the pro cir- horse. cuits.

Each state has “Because I pro two directors who “Even though a lot of the racrodeo in the sum- also serve on the ers at the finals aren’t diehards, mer on the Mountain board. The mem- they are tough.” – NWBRA States Circuit, I try to bers nominate and President Annie Campbell go to my four races in vote on directors, the spring,” she adds. and the directors Campbell started vote for the executive committee from within the 12 barrel racing when directors. Any producer is allowed to sanction a race, and she got married 18 the directors organize the finals. years ago, as her hus- “Any producer who puts on a jackpot can co-sanction band was into rodeo. with us, and they pay a $25 fee and a dollar for every runShe grew up on a ner,” explains Campbell. “Producers must submit a sancranch outside Med- tion form prior to their Annie Campbell of Shoshoni barrel races on the Northwest Barrel Racing icine Bow, and as a race to NWBRA, and the Association and Mountain States cir- kid she sometimes fees go into the payout ran barrels, but never and prizes at the finals.” cuits. Courtesy photo seriously.

The NWBRA di-rec “My good horse hurt his stifle last summer at pro rodeo, tors work hard to have so I just bought a young horse that I have been working a smooth finals, as the with,” Campbell says. “I’m not hung up on any specific large amount of runners bloodline when I choose horses. I do like First Down Dash necessitate a fast, wellhorses and for them to have a little cow in them too, but if managed event. The 2011 they’re athletic and want to try they can usually make it at finals will be held at the Camplex in Gillette from Oct. 7-9.

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Douglas – Wagonhound Land and Livestock’s horse program notes John. “I’ve really grown as a trainer, and it’s exciting to look focuses on producing quality, versatile ranch horses that will also back and see how I’ve improved. We’re also very privileged to compete in the show world. The program has been in operation for ride with many really great trainers from around the country due roughly a decade, and has almost completed the transition from to Wagonhound’s name purchased horses to a herd entirely home bred, born and raised. recognition, and that def “It’s Wagonhound’s goal to produce really nice ranch horses. It initely helps us, and the “Being able to tag calves or rope started that way, then went toward cutting horses, then into perfor- horses we train.” and drag to a branding fire for mance lines, and now is coming back with really nice bloodlines “We also have access the first time on a young horse, for breeding a great ranch horse,” explains Wagonhound horse to a great set of facilities,” trainer and cowboy Matt Kelly. continues Kelly, “but it’s and just see them improve, are “Having an all-around, well-built horse that’s athletic enough nice to get outside, too, some of my favorite things.” – to take to a weekend show, and also has enough stamina to come and I really like the vari- Wagonhound trainer Matt home and cowboy on all week when you’re covering a lot of miles, ety here. Being able to tag Kelly is what we aim for,” adds fellow Wagonhound horse trainer and calves or rope and drag to cowboy Ed John. a branding fire for the first Kelly and John are the ranch’s trainers, and their responsibili- time on a young horse, and just see them improve, are some of my ties include a variety of tasks, starting with breaking the two-year- favorite things.” olds each year.

“Just riding inside gets boring, and I also love the ranch work,” “We have about 50 broodmares in our band right now, and adds John. “We have about 2,000 Red Angus cows, a feedlot, and after starting all the two’s, Matt and I make suggestions as to we buy calves and run them on grass over the summer, so there’s a where they will go,” explains John. “Some of the fancier ones lot of outside work for a horse. I like being able to take my threewith good bloodlines to back them might go to other trainers who year-olds to the feedlot and help sort, or ride them to tag calves or will continue with them, and maybe show them for us. Some of doctor yearlings. It’s the whole picture here, and I love that.” those may also be sold as young horses, and Matt and I each keep Of the future goals for the Wagonhound horse program, Kelly a few that we will ride and possibly lists a production sale at the top of show ourselves. The rest go right into the list. our remuda and are used for ranch “We’re getting our horse program horses.” more developed now, and we plan Wagonhound currently utilizes to have a production sale here at the three primary sires: Genuine Masterranch. We’re probably still a year or piece, the 2010 Open Junior Reined two out from the first one, but that’s Cowhorse Champion and 2010 what we’re aiming toward. The 6666 National Reining Cowhorse AssociRanch will likely be a partner in it, ation Open Two Rein World Chamand bring horses up from Texas for pion, PC Frenchmans Hay Day the sale, also,” he explains.

“Dinero,” and WR This Cats Smart, “A lot of people only see Wagonwho won the 2005 National Cutting hound’s name when we have a horse Horse Association World Champion, that does something really big nationand who reached the million-dollar Matt Kelly and Ed John head up the training program at ally, and they may get the impression mark as a sire this year.

Wagonhound Land and Livestock. Heather Hamilton photo. that these horses are extremely high “Both Genuine Masterpiece and end and something they could never WR This Cats Smart currently stand at the 6666 Ranch in Texas,” afford to ride, and that’s not necessarily the case,” adds John. “We notes John. try to produce all-around horses that a lot of different people can Kelly and John comment that having the opportunity to train use for a lot of different things, and that will be the goal for the horses for a program like Wagonhound is something very few peo- horses marketed through the sale, as well.” ple get to experience, and a job they both enjoy and feel fortunate For more information on the Wagonhound horse program, to have. visit wagonhound.com. Heather Hamilton is a correspondent for “You wouldn’t get the opportunity to show and ride horses the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Send comments on this article to of this caliber just anywhere, and I feel very privileged to do so,” roundup@wylr.net.

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ance Creek – “My wife Jennifer encouraged me to try showing with the AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association), because she knew I had always been interested in it. That was about four or five years ago, and last year we won an AQHA World Championship,” says Chris Jensen of how he began showing and raising performance horses.

Jensen won the world in the Select Heading Division for team roping on his stallion Playzorro, who is a son of Playgun and out of Texas Kicker mare. He had qualified for the world show with Playzorro three times prior to last year’s appearance, when he finally took home the gold statue.

“We were originally looking for a gelding to buy and show, but found a stallion consigned to the Pitzer Ranch Horse Sale in Erickson, Neb. He fit the bill on everything we wanted, but in being a stallion that opened a whole new can of worms – if you’ve got a stud, you’ve also got to have mares,” notes Jensen with a laugh.

“So, I’ve been buying mares to breed to him, and I’ve tried to buy daughters of AQHA world champions. With his show record and ability, and their bloodlines, I should have some really nice colts that will be pretty marketable and competitive,” explains Jensen.

He adds that he also takes in outside mares to breed to Playzorro, and works to have all of his horses bred before taking in outside horses.

“I’ve really noticed a difference in those older colts. Having that one- to two-month age advantage at weaning has been a really positive thing for me. It also gets those mares out of the way when I’m bringing in outside horses.

“I’ve really enjoyed watching the babies grow up, and working with them. We can see a lot of Playzorro’s personality traits in them, and they’re a lot of fun to work with,” notes Jensen.

Another aspect he enjoys about his horse operation is competing the AQHA show world, and the challenges involved in that level of competition.

“When I started showing I was green as a gourd, and the professional horsemen I was around, and competing with and against, are very good people who are willing to help at all times.

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things, I’ve increased my horsemanship skills at least 10-fold since I started,” he says.

Qualifying for the World Show is based on points accumulated at AQHA shows, and the Jensens attend shows from South Dakota to Colorado. Jensen explains that a lot of traveling is involved to make enough shows, and while that is a challenge, it also means the couple gets to live where they want.

“Another challenge is getting qualified for the World each year, because there are a lot of good horses out there, and a lot of good competitors. You have to bring your A-game every time you enter the box,” explains Jensen.

“When they’re judging in team roping there are five categories. They start with how your horse stands in the box, then how he runs the cattle, how he rates the cattle, how he handles the cattle and how he faces, and you can have points added or deducted in any of those areas. It makes for a really good competition,” “He’s the type of horse I can comments Jensen.

“My goal is to raise show in the AQHA, and I can great ranch and show horses, also use him on the ranch or in and get Playzorro recog- any event I want.” – Chris Jennized. He’s the type of horse sen, speaking of his stallion I can show in the AQHA, and I can also use him on the Playzorro ranch or in any event I want.

He’s cutting bred on the top, reining bred on the bottom, and I rope on him and use him for ranch work when we’re not showing, and I expect his colts to be the same kind of horses,” he notes.

“My granddad lived in the Midwest area, and he was a horse trader and raised horses. At one point he even had Fort Robinson remount studs, and my dad raced horses for many years, so it’s something that’s in my blood and I just really enjoy it,” says Jensen.

For more information on the Jensens’ program, visit cjensenquarterhorses.com. Heather Hamilton is a correspondent for the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.

Chris Jensen and his stallion Playzorro won the 2010 AQHA World Championship in the Select Heading Division in team roping. Chris and his wife Jennifer were originally looking for a gelding to show, but when they found Playzorro he was everything they wanted and they couldn't pass him up. Courtesy photo

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Playzorro is a son of Playgun and out of a Texas Kicker mare.

Chris and Jennifer Jensen purchased him at the Pitzer Ranch Performance Horse Sale, in Ericson, Neb. In addition to winning the world last year in heading, Chris also placed 12th in calf roping. Courtesy photo Wyoming Livestock Roundup

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The rodeo grounds were first located on a 40-acre parcel in the middle of town, and they were home to the Jackson’s Hole Frontier Rodeo, which was held the first three days of each September.

The rodeo was held on those grounds in the center of town until the mid-1930s, when the town purchased the 25-acre tract on which the rodeo grounds are now located. Grandstands and racetrack were built, and the rodeo grounds were called Frontier Park.

Now under the oversight of WW Productions and stock contractor Phil Wilson, one notable change in the last year is the rodeo’s official purchase of the registered trademark name Jackson Hole Image courtesy Ja ckson Hole Histo Rodeo, where before it had been referred to as JH Rodeo. rical Society After conducting bull ridings in the area, WW Productions picked up the contract for the rodeo last year, when the previous busting, calf riding and steer riding, and we just got through with a owners retired. team roping school, and we do all that for education,” says Wilson.

“Last summer went really well,” says Wilson. “We spent more “We feel the cowboy is a dying breed, and we’re trying to educate money than we thought we would, but we also made more money. It people on why we do what we do. There aren’t many ranching kids takes a lot to promote the rodeo, and we did a lot of things that hadn’t left, in our community, especially, and we’ve found a lot of the kids been done before.” just don’t know how to get involved – they’d like The rodeo’s events now include clown acts, to get into the sport, but don’t know what they rodeo acts, professional announcers, mutton “We’ve found a lot of the kids need to do. busting and a change in the chute area to center just don’t know how to get “Rodeo isn’t like going out for football. In delivery. involved – they’d like to get into rodeo, you enter, then you’re up, and you don’t “We did a lot of things, and they paid off, as the sport, but don’t know what know anything without schooling or technical the county put in for a one percent tax to cover training, so we offer a weekly school with a bucknew grandstands and bucking chutes,” says they need to do.” – Phil Wilson, ing machine and instructors, because Jackson Wilson. “They’re doing about $1.5 million of on encouraging young rodeo Hole has a lot of people who come to the rodeo, cowboys new improvements.” and, like all rodeos, we’re short on contestants.”

Wilson estimates that between 50,000 and Wilson says the Jackson Hole Rodeo draws 60,000 people attended the rodeo last summer, contestants from far and near, with quite a few of and of those he says 25 percent come from outside the United States. them college kids, which Wilson encourages.

“Our rodeo is more of a production than most hometown rodeos, “We try to hit the college and high school kids in Wyoming, because the audience doesn’t have a concept of what it is or where Idaho and Utah,” says Wilson. it came from,” he notes. “They don’t know what a bareback horse Christy Martinez is managing editor of the Wyoming Livestock does, or why the sport was started, and our announcers explain all Roundup and can be reached at christy@wylr.net. that, starting at ground zero – that this sport didn’t start as a sport, but was how people broke horses so they could use them to rope and doctor cattle. We have to explain that, with that many people who don’t know rodeo.”

In addition to a rodeo performance with an emphasis for families and kids, Wilson says WW Productions also has a youth focus.

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One hundred years ago, Jackson’s original Frontier Park occupied 40 acres in the middle of town. Now the Jackson Hole Rodeo is held on a 25-acre tract outside of town. Photo courtesy Jackson Hole Historical Society

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