Rodeo champions at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show, left to right, Ken Roberts, Howard McCrorey, Louis Brooks, Homer Pettigrew, and Frank Badsky. Ken Roberts, of Strong City, Kansas, won in Brahma bull riding. Roberts is wearing a cowboy hat, coat, chaps, and cowboy boots. Howard McCrorey, of Deadwood, South Dakota, won the steer wrestling title. McCrorey is wearing a cowboy hat, a coat, jeans and cowboy boots. Louis Brooks, of Florence, Arizona, won the saddle bronco riding title. Brooks is wearing a cowboy hat, button-up shirt, bandanna, trousers, and cowboy boots. Homer Pettigrew of Springer, New Mexico, won in calf roping. Pettigrew is wearing a cowboy hat, button-up shirt, jeans and cowboy boots. Frank Badsky, of Denver, Colorado, took the bareback bronco riding title. Badsky is wearing a cowboy hat, a striped button-up shirt, chaps, and boots. The men are posing with their reward certificates.
This project was funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services/Texas State Library and Archives Commission.