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Hey TxTibbs

Big Muddy rancher

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Tonight on the Cowboy Show with Ken Overcast they had an old fellow on from Polson Mt. that had rode picked when Casey rode there. Casey was on his way from Calgary to Cheyenne and stopped in Polson on the way. They had some rank broncs and had a special one picked out for Casey. The pick up men had to hide back along the chutes so the horse would buck down the arena, if he saw the pick up men he would come right to them. Well the horse made a dirty duck right at the chute and Casey went over the head and hung up. The pick up man said he only had to more his horse over a bout a foot and reached down and popped the stirrup off Casey's toe.
Casey told him he wanted to take him up town that night and buy him the best steak in town. While they were eating Casey kept trying to buy the pinto horse the man had been riding as Casey had one to match him and he wanted to use him in the movie Born to Buck. Well the fellow even tho he had only payed a couple of hundred for the horse off the reservation he didn't want to sell. Casey gave him a $1,500 dollar check but he tore it up refusing to sell. Turns out about a week later the horse got kicked by another horse and ended up dead.
I probably missed a few details but sure enjoyed listening to the story. :D
 

TXTibbs

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Interesting story....I've never heard of this Overcast guy?

If you had a room full of all the guys who hated Casey and another room full of all the ones who did like him I'm not sure which would be fuller....prolly the first room...haha....Casey pissed a lot of people off along his travels, but made some good friends to. He was quite a colorful individual and I'm not sure how he got away with half of what he got away with!

They had a trail ride back home in his honor I guess it was last summer now and it was to sorta hit off the grand opening of the Casey Tibbs Rodeo Center....which I was beginning to wonder if I'd live long enough to see completed...but anyway they had some speakers along the way and some good stories came up. His daughter was there from California and she hasn't been back in years.

Casey's last surviving sister passed away a few months back and she was the last of that line out of 10 kids. That entire generation is now 6 feet under and now my Dad's generation is the ages of how I first remember Casey and my grandpa and the other siblings.....funny how life just goes on and the cycles continue isn't it!

Thanks for the story BMR
 

loomixguy

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TXTibbs said:
Interesting story....I've never heard of this Overcast guy?

If you had a room full of all the guys who hated Casey and another room full of all the ones who did like him I'm not sure which would be fuller....prolly the first room...haha....Casey p****d a lot of people off along his travels, but made some good friends to. He was quite a colorful individual and I'm not sure how he got away with half of what he got away with!

They had a trail ride back home in his honor I guess it was last summer now and it was to sorta hit off the grand opening of the Casey Tibbs Rodeo Center....which I was beginning to wonder if I'd live long enough to see completed...but anyway they had some speakers along the way and some good stories came up. His daughter was there from California and she hasn't been back in years.

Casey's last surviving sister passed away a few months back and she was the last of that line out of 10 kids. That entire generation is now 6 feet under and now my Dad's generation is the ages of how I first remember Casey and my grandpa and the other siblings.....funny how life just goes on and the cycles continue isn't it!

Thanks for the story BMR

How often that someone who is extremely successful in their chosen profession is hated. Jealousy, that old green eyed monster, is a fickle beast, and can drive otherwise decent, normal folks into snarling, foam mouthed demons when "the Champ's" name is mentioned. Why they begrudge someone their success is beyond me, as success breeds it's own set of problems for them that the jealous folks seldom see or even realize.
 

Faster horses

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Tibbs, Ken Overcast has some books out, too. They are good
reading. He's on Red Steagull's "Cowboy Corner" I think...or he
used to be. You would enjoy his humor! He was the entertainment
here for a couple of years at our Farm and Ranch Day. He's
very entertaining... is a rancher from north central Montana.
He has a monthly column in the Prarie Star, a Montana Farm
magazine.
 

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