roper

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Professional rodeo athletes like Shad Mayfield, a cattle roper who’s ranked among the best in the world, make up a new legion of role models for Black children.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

Her husband, the retired roper Charly Crawford, stayed at home in Stephenville, Texas, with daughter Kaydence.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021

Griffin was a team roper in high school rodeos and for a while afterward and he still rides occasionally at stepfather Fred Pearce’s ranch between Tatum and Roswell, New Mexico.

From Washington Times • Apr. 23, 2019

Clark McEntire was a three-time world champion steer roper, tough as dirt, who never told his children he loved them.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2018

Then, on a frigid night that month, William Stepson, a twenty-nine-year-old Osage champion steer roper, received a call that prompted him to leave his house in Fairfax.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann