Holder of 18 World Titles
Mr. Rodeo to Compete at Harrisburg
(Ed. note In a sport which had its beginnings in
the actual ranch chores of western cowboys, and finds its
“young blood” among men who develop the required rodeo
skills working on modern ranches, few cowboys are con
sistently superior to all other
The greatest of those few, Jim Shoulders, is at his
peak, towering above the field. Not only is he a great com
petitor in the arena, but he is recognized as one of the
finest gentlemen of the west.
Competing in two of the wildest and most dangerous
events of rodeo, he has carefully saved his winnings and
invested them in one of the finest small working ranches
anywhere Through Jim Sholders, Lancaster Farming sa
lutes the thousands of competing rodeo cowboys partici
pating in the only major sport to grow from American Agri
culture )
As befits his stature as the
greatest rodeo champion in the
history of the cowboy contests,
“Slim Jim” Shoulders, 30-year
old Henryetta. Oklahoma world’s
champion became the first of an
expected 200 cowboys to place
entry fees for the World Cham
pion Rodeo in Hainsburg next
week.
In 1949, the slim, soft-spoken
and painfully shy cowboy became
the youngest “waddie” in history
to win the World’s All-Around
Cowboy Championship. He re
peated the feat in 1956 and ’57,
boosting his total of world’s
championship to 18, well above
the previous record compiled by
the colorful Casey Tibbs, another
rough-string rider from Fort
Pierre, S D.
Shoulders has won more than
$300,000 on the whipping backs
of thousands of bareback broncs
and brama bulls, in the only
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1949, it has been a raie year
when he failed to gain the cham
pionship in at least one event
The son of a Tulsa County,
part-time dairyman, this all-time
Rodeo great found milk parlor
chores too placid and followed
the trail of an older brother into
rodeo, often practice riding his
father’s Holstein calves on the
sly as a boy.
But before finding fame and
f Ol tune in the rodeo world he
also worked in the wheat fields
of his native state for $2 50 per
day.
During early October, ha com
piled an unprecedented sweep of
two events and the all-around
honors at the Madison Square
Garden Rodeo in New York City,
practically cinching the 1958 All-
Around honors and increasing
his lead in the individual events
His winnings so far this - year
total $29,337.
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Jim hopes his son will become
a rancher, not a rodeo cowboy;
reflecting his love of rodeo’s
true beginning
Shoulders won $43 000 two
years ago and $33,000 last year.
This year he leads Benny Rey
nolds, young Melrose, Montana
bronc rider, by 6,000 points or
dollars, in the titla race He is
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He is the fust and only cowboy
to collar three All Around titles
and with the winning of a fourth,
his records may never be equaled
Last year, the residents of his
adopted home-town of Henryetta
ignoied his pleas to spend their
money on “something useful’’
and erected a huge sign near his
ranch claiming him once and for
all time as “their’s” and the
world’s No 1 cowboy.
Natives of Calgary, Ontario
provided him with his nickname
of “Slim Jim ’ several years ago
and offered to adopt him at any
tuna he cared to move north.
Shortly before the 1957 rodeo
season, a truck-load of hay was
to be hauled from a barn on
the 5,000 acre J Lazy S ranch
to Arizona The truck and driver
arrived, and there were three
helpers on hand to help load.
The driver later reported Jim
came down from the house and
insisted upon helping “Jim act
ually handled more bales, by
count, than all three of those
helpers,’’ the driver stated.
Jim met his wife in the earlf
Forties, when they were both
students in a small consolidated
high school On their first date,
he naturally took her horse back
riding Years later, after he was
established m rodeo, they were
married and now have three
children
Lancaster Farming, Friday, November 7, 1958
JIM SHOULDERS, holder of 18 World’s Champion
ships in professional rodeo, three All-Around
titles, winner of more than $3OO 000 and a solid
“dirt” rancher The No 1 cowboy of rodeo history
considered a cinch for at least deiotion to his family, well
the “big one” and may again take groomed appearance at all
three times and genuine modesty '
In contrast to the wild ways of For these and many other reas
former rodeo eras, Jim personi ons, he is firmly established as
lies the modern cowbojs, with Mi Rodeo, THE “cowsboys’ cow
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