Maudie Jewel Bowman Campbell ( Ed's sister)
"He started cowboying at the age of twelve when he joined the CA Bar Ranch in
New Mexico as a horse wrangler. Ed worked on several New Mexico ranches, and finally bought the Hook and Line Ranch in Arizona below Coolidge Dam and ranched three until 1954. In 1945 he bought a ranch near Peyton, Colorado,
which was also called the Hook and Line. He left his mark in rodeo--not through
the many titles and championships he won over the years, but in other ways,
too. In the 1920's, Ed had a gelding named Pete which he used to rope on at the rodeos. Up until this time, a roping horse was merely transportation to the
calf. After the calf was roped, the horse just stood there and watched the
performance. But Pete was different. Pete backed up and held the rope taut,
which helped Ed throw the calf, and while he wrapped the animal up. The horse
was soon dubbed "back-up Pete", and not long after that every good roping horse on the circuit was "backing up on the rope". With his two brothers, Everett and Richard, they pulled another innovation by building a contraption that hooked behind a car and you could pull a horse in it. They hauled a horse clear up to the Cheyenne Frontier Days in it. That was the first horse trailer that ever showed up at the Frontier Days.
Ed was mighty proud of his record as strap-and-cinch relay ride champion.
He won this event continously for nine years until it was dropped as a rodeo
event. he was proudest of all, though, of his great cutting horse, Sonny Boy.
One incident he never tired of telling was the time that Sonny Boy slipped in a
wet arena and fell during a performance. he fell flat on his side and Ed's head
hit the ground. Ed was knocked cold, but his second nature was to "stay in the
saddle". Sonny Boy leaped back to his feet with Ed still in the saddle, didn't
lose the cow, and went on to win the cutting. Ed had a concussion and every
time he'd regain consciousness that night he'd ask his wife, Louise "who won
the cuttin?" In later years, Louise loved to kid him saying Sonny Boy did a
better job when Ed was asleep than when he was awake"
.
"He started cowboying at the age of twelve when he joined the CA Bar Ranch in
New Mexico as a horse wrangler. Ed worked on several New Mexico ranches, and finally bought the Hook and Line Ranch in Arizona below Coolidge Dam and ranched three until 1954. In 1945 he bought a ranch near Peyton, Colorado,
which was also called the Hook and Line. He left his mark in rodeo--not through
the many titles and championships he won over the years, but in other ways,
too. In the 1920's, Ed had a gelding named Pete which he used to rope on at the rodeos. Up until this time, a roping horse was merely transportation to the
calf. After the calf was roped, the horse just stood there and watched the
performance. But Pete was different. Pete backed up and held the rope taut,
which helped Ed throw the calf, and while he wrapped the animal up. The horse
was soon dubbed "back-up Pete", and not long after that every good roping horse on the circuit was "backing up on the rope". With his two brothers, Everett and Richard, they pulled another innovation by building a contraption that hooked behind a car and you could pull a horse in it. They hauled a horse clear up to the Cheyenne Frontier Days in it. That was the first horse trailer that ever showed up at the Frontier Days.
Ed was mighty proud of his record as strap-and-cinch relay ride champion.
He won this event continously for nine years until it was dropped as a rodeo
event. he was proudest of all, though, of his great cutting horse, Sonny Boy.
One incident he never tired of telling was the time that Sonny Boy slipped in a
wet arena and fell during a performance. he fell flat on his side and Ed's head
hit the ground. Ed was knocked cold, but his second nature was to "stay in the
saddle". Sonny Boy leaped back to his feet with Ed still in the saddle, didn't
lose the cow, and went on to win the cutting. Ed had a concussion and every
time he'd regain consciousness that night he'd ask his wife, Louise "who won
the cuttin?" In later years, Louise loved to kid him saying Sonny Boy did a
better job when Ed was asleep than when he was awake"
.
Maudie Jewel Bowman Campbell ( Ed's sister)
"He started cowboying at the age of twelve when he joined the CA Bar Ranch in
New Mexico as a horse wrangler. Ed worked on several New Mexico ranches, and finally bought the Hook and Line Ranch in Arizona below Coolidge Dam and ranched three until 1954. In 1945 he bought a ranch near Peyton, Colorado,
which was also called the Hook and Line. He left his mark in rodeo--not through
the many titles and championships he won over the years, but in other ways,
too. In the 1920's, Ed had a gelding named Pete which he used to rope on at the rodeos. Up until this time, a roping horse was merely transportation to the
calf. After the calf was roped, the horse just stood there and watched the
performance. But Pete was different. Pete backed up and held the rope taut,
which helped Ed throw the calf, and while he wrapped the animal up. The horse
was soon dubbed "back-up Pete", and not long after that every good roping horse on the circuit was "backing up on the rope". With his two brothers, Everett and Richard, they pulled another innovation by building a contraption that hooked behind a car and you could pull a horse in it. They hauled a horse clear up to the Cheyenne Frontier Days in it. That was the first horse trailer that ever showed up at the Frontier Days.
Ed was mighty proud of his record as strap-and-cinch relay ride champion.
He won this event continously for nine years until it was dropped as a rodeo
event. he was proudest of all, though, of his great cutting horse, Sonny Boy.
One incident he never tired of telling was the time that Sonny Boy slipped in a
wet arena and fell during a performance. he fell flat on his side and Ed's head
hit the ground. Ed was knocked cold, but his second nature was to "stay in the
saddle". Sonny Boy leaped back to his feet with Ed still in the saddle, didn't
lose the cow, and went on to win the cutting. Ed had a concussion and every
time he'd regain consciousness that night he'd ask his wife, Louise "who won
the cuttin?" In later years, Louise loved to kid him saying Sonny Boy did a
better job when Ed was asleep than when he was awake"
.
"He started cowboying at the age of twelve when he joined the CA Bar Ranch in
New Mexico as a horse wrangler. Ed worked on several New Mexico ranches, and finally bought the Hook and Line Ranch in Arizona below Coolidge Dam and ranched three until 1954. In 1945 he bought a ranch near Peyton, Colorado,
which was also called the Hook and Line. He left his mark in rodeo--not through
the many titles and championships he won over the years, but in other ways,
too. In the 1920's, Ed had a gelding named Pete which he used to rope on at the rodeos. Up until this time, a roping horse was merely transportation to the
calf. After the calf was roped, the horse just stood there and watched the
performance. But Pete was different. Pete backed up and held the rope taut,
which helped Ed throw the calf, and while he wrapped the animal up. The horse
was soon dubbed "back-up Pete", and not long after that every good roping horse on the circuit was "backing up on the rope". With his two brothers, Everett and Richard, they pulled another innovation by building a contraption that hooked behind a car and you could pull a horse in it. They hauled a horse clear up to the Cheyenne Frontier Days in it. That was the first horse trailer that ever showed up at the Frontier Days.
Ed was mighty proud of his record as strap-and-cinch relay ride champion.
He won this event continously for nine years until it was dropped as a rodeo
event. he was proudest of all, though, of his great cutting horse, Sonny Boy.
One incident he never tired of telling was the time that Sonny Boy slipped in a
wet arena and fell during a performance. he fell flat on his side and Ed's head
hit the ground. Ed was knocked cold, but his second nature was to "stay in the
saddle". Sonny Boy leaped back to his feet with Ed still in the saddle, didn't
lose the cow, and went on to win the cutting. Ed had a concussion and every
time he'd regain consciousness that night he'd ask his wife, Louise "who won
the cuttin?" In later years, Louise loved to kid him saying Sonny Boy did a
better job when Ed was asleep than when he was awake"
.
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