The Okeechobee Cattlemen’s Association rodeo celebrates the local rodeo’s 75 anniversary this year.
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The Okeechobee Cattlemen’s Association rodeo celebrates the local rodeo’s 75th anniversary this year. Okeechobee cowboys were already competing in rodeos before the establishment of the local event.
A headline in the Feb. 27, 1951 Florida Times Union declared “Pete Clemons Sets Pace in Spurs Roping.”
The story explains: “Pete Clemons of Brighton led the calf roping contest with a time of 20.4 seconds as the first Silver Spurs Midwinter Rodeo passed the halfway point this afternoon.”
Clemons put himself through university with money he won competing in rodeos.
