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Saddle Bronc Rider
Steer Wrestler
Born Lyle Edward Asher at Armington, Illinois, in 1901, Wild West show and rodeo contestant “Tex Slocum” grew up in the Texas Panhandle, was orphaned at age seven, and joined the Texas Kid Wild West in 1916. Within a few years he became a featured saddle bronc rider with both the Ringling Brothers and Hagenback-Wallace circuses. During the late 1920s he also doubled for Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson in silent movies featuring rodeo action.
“Tex Slocum” joined the rodeo circuit sometime in the late 1920s and competed at many western and mid-western venues, as well as at Madison Square Garden in New York City, into the early 1940s. He joined the Cowboys Turtle Association in 1941. Always a competitive bronc rider, Tex won the title three times in succession (1928-1930) at the Sidney, Iowa, rodeo, retiring the John Hammermill Trophy. In 1931 he sustained a severe concussion in the arena, but made a gradual comeback, capturing the title of “Light Weight Champion Bulldogger” at Cheyenne in 1934 and successfully riding Five Minutes to Midnight at Lincoln, Nebraska.
During his later rodeo career, “Tex Slocum” occasionally served as an arena judge and as a chute foreman. He retired from the arena in 1942 and settled in the San Francisco, California, area, where he worked as a carpenter until his death in 1963.
