Billy Birchfield, Deming Boy, Wins Cattle Roping Prize in Solomonville
Billy Birchfield, a Deming boy, won first prize at a cattle roping tournament held as part of the Fourth of July celebration in Solomonville, Arizona, in 1891 [1][2]. He took the fifty-dollar prize with an aggregate time of one minute and eleven seconds in tying three steers [1][2].
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