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Steer Roper
One of the top ropers to come out of Oklahoma, Fred Lowry was born in 1892. At his ranch near Lenapah, he at first roped for a hobby, but he entered a contest in 1909 at Vinita, which he won.
Lowry won the steer roping at Cheyenne six times (1916, 1921, 1924-1925, 1927, and 1929), and he won the calf roping in 1921 at the same venue. Only Herb Meyers equaled that record, in 1931 winning both the calf and steer roping. In a career that spanned four decades, Fred Lowry competed all over America, entering and winning his last contests at Dewey and Vinita in 1948.
Fred Lowry was the first to hold roping schools for rodeo hands. Two of his famous students were Everett Shaw and Shoat Webster, whom he taught that the most important element in roping is a good horse. Fred Lowry died in 1956.
