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Saddle Bronc Rider, Champion, 1932-1933, 1935-1936
Among the best bronc riders in rodeo, Pete Knight was born in 1903 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While he was a youth, his family moved to Crossfield, Alberta, Canada, where he began to break and gentle unruly horses.
Pete Knight began rodeoing around 1918 and won his first major championship in 1924 at the Edmonton Exhibition and Stampede. In 1932 he won an unusual match competition at Reno, Nevada, capturing the coveted Jack Dempsey trophy. To prove this was no fluke, Knight proceeded to win four world titles as bronc riding champion in a five-year period.
A true contender, Pete Knight was killed in an arena accident at Harry Rowell’s Haywood, California, rodeo in 1937. He is memorialized in Crossfield, Alberta, as the “finest bronc rider of all time and one of nature’s gentlemen.
