Arizona in the Saddle July 2014

Burel Mulkey Small Man, Big Heart By Jim Olson, ©2014, www.JimOlsonAuthor.com B urel Mulkey was born May 25, 1904 in Clyde, Idaho to Columbus and Nellie Mulkey. He became one of the sixtyone men who walked out of performing at the Boston Garden Rodeo in 1936. On that late October day, history was made. Those sixty-one men had no way of knowing that what they were doing would eventually wind up as the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association (PRCA). And while their immediate concern was fair prize money there at the “Garden” (a matter of a few thousand dollars at the time), they could not even have imagined that what they did would play a small part in the fact that a rodeo finals now pays out over six million dollars in ten days of p

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