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Rodeo Livestock Contractor
Margaret “Maggie” Tryon Rowell, born in 1906 at Michigan City, Indiana, met and married California rancher Harry Rowell in the mid-1930s. From their large ranch in Dublin Canyon, near Hayward, California, they supplied rough stock for all of the West’s major rodeo venues. On the West Coast, Maggie Rowell was known as the “unofficial queen of the rodeo,” and Harry Rowell was known as “The Rodeo King of the West.”
From 1921 through 1969 Maggie Rowell helped her husband produce the Hayward Rodeo (now called the Rowell Ranch Rodeo) at their ranch, and after his death she continued the show. The Rowells’ financial and spiritual generosity was legendary among those who competed on the western circuit. A cowboy could always find a hot meal and some work at the Rowell Ranch.
When Maggie Rowell died in 1975, she designated a non-profit corporation to direct and operate the Rowell Ranch Rodeo.
