Spurs used by Don Bell while a Range Cowboy and Rodeo Performer in Wyoming
name: label: user
content: Bell, Don
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Spurs that were attached to Don Bell's leather cowboy boots with a brass buckle. The silver section of the spurs has a diamond carved design. The maker of the spurs was top cowboy and rodeo contestant, Hohmer Roark, who became a convict in Cañon City Colorado penitentiary and made the spurs for Bell. Don Bell joined the rodeo circuit at the age of 12 performing in the Clyde Miller Wild West Show, the Bill King Rodeo Co., and Rufus Rollins' Wild West Show. He retired from performing in 1949 but continued to work as a range cowboy and became a writer and historian of the rodeo lifestyle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Colorado, Cañon City
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Rodeo
label: level of sport
content: Professional
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Don Bell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0253.02
label: accession number
content: 1984.0253
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0253.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spurs, pair of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 2 in; 25.4 cm x 5.08 cm