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Trick Roper, Champion
Born in 1892 at Mulhall, Oklahoma Territory, Sam Garrett grew up among the performing cowboys of the famed Mulhall Congress of Rough Riders. Will Rogers was among his early teachers in trick and fancy roping.
Billed as “The Boy Wonder of Roping,” Garrett started touring at age 14 with the Miller Brothers, and also appeared in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, Barnum & Bailey’s Circus, and Pawnee Bill’s Far East. He started rodeoing in 1912 and won the “World’s Champion Trick Roper” title an unprecedented seven times at Cheyenne.
During the 1930s and 1940s Garrett was employed regularly as a riding and roping teacher and as a double in Hollywood. He appeared in such films as Dodge City, Santa Fe Trail, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and Gone with the Wind.
Sam Garrett was famous in his later years as the “poet with the lariat” on his performing palomino, Yellow Hammer. He died in 1989.
