According to Harry Jackson, “Clayton Danks, who I show winning the world championship on Steamboat in Two Champs was high sheriff of Fremont County, the second largest in Wyoming, for sixteen years. He was general manager of a big cow outfit in the badlands–outlaw country south of Baggs, Wyoming–for many years before that, and he was one of the best bronc riders and steer ropers for twenty years starting at the turn of the century. In those days they rode broncs until they stopped bucking, way before the eight- and ten- second rule....”

A cast of Two Champs from this edition was presented to the Queen of England as a gift from President Gerald R. Ford.

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Janesville, WI

LITERATURE
Larry Pointer and Donald Goodard, Harry Jackson (New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981), p 260, plates 330-1, illustrated

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