Entertainer, and World Champion Saddle Bronco Rider. He was raised on his parents' 61-Bar Ranch near Wolf, Wyoming, where he learned to ride bucking horses. At the age of 19, he began his rodeo career at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds and joined the popular Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch Wild West Show for a short while. In his first year with the group, he was one of the star performers. The wild west shows were always attached to the rodeo circuit, and he would compete in saddle bronc riding at all of the major rodeos across the country. In the 1927 saddle bronc championship, he had the highest average of any rider. He drew the "spinner" competition event in the finals, which required him to ride his bronc through slippery mud and steer the horse through a precise pattern of circles, spins, and stops. His horse slid twice before falling against a fence and dumping him into the mud. A few weeks later, he went to Chicago, marking his transition from amateur to professional. He won the Bronco Riding Championship at the Greeley Spud Rodeo in Wheatland, Wyoming, in 1930, and placed fourth at the world championship at the Cheyenne Rodeo two weeks later. In 1933, he won the Bronco Riding Championship in Omaha, Nebraska, and his time of 3.4 seconds gave him the lead he needed to become the World Steer Decorating Champion. In 1935, he won three bronco riding championships in Salinas, Hayward, California, and Butte, Montana. After nine days of competition in the Los Angeles rodeo, he rode twelve times and was thrown once, securing another world championship. From 1936 until 1945, he won the saddle bronc riding title at nearly every major western rodeo, as well as the "Saddle Bronc Riding World Championship" in 1940 and 1941. In 1940, he was named one of the twenty best cowboys in the world and won the Rodeo Association of America (RAA) Hamley Saddle prize. In early 1945, he retired from rodeo and bought a ranch in Wellington, Colorado. He was a founding member of the "Cowboy Turtles Association" in 1936 and was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1966 and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1972.