Since learning to shoe horses in the Army, Butch was featured shoeing horses in the Butte/Anaconda Montana Standard in 1987. He has taken first place in saddle bronc and bareback riding in Sweetgrass, Choteau, Great Falls, and Browning.” He has special pride in that with his two traveling partners Sonny LaFromboise and Frank Kinney, as they won every Wild Horse Race that they entered as a team. Butch provided shoeing for many people in the Butte, Big Hole, Beaverhead, Deer Lodge, Ruby Valley areas for many years.īutch’s sister, Lucille Corr says “Butch rode in rodeos in Great Falls, Belt, Helena, Sweetgrass, Choteau, and Browning, between 19. Butch moved on to work for the Montana Livestock brand office where he continued to ride while checking brands and cattle for 26 years. He worked in Alder, on the Jim Burns Ranch as the ranch foreman until 1965, at which time he went to work for the Montana Livestock Auction where he stayed for three years.
He also broke horses for local ranchers along the Smith along with shoeing. During this time, he continued to rodeo during the summers and trapped the Smith River during the winters. Lewis.Īfter his job with the Lewis Ranch, Butch went to work for the Miller Cattle Company to break horses for a short time.īutch worked for the Coby Sheep Company/McKammey Bros. Butch also spent three years in Glacier National Park guiding and packing supplies while still riding broncs and shoeing for Mrs. At the age of 17 he won the Saddle Bronc and placed 2nd in the Bareback. Lewis, Butch entered the 1944 Memorial Day rodeo in Browning. It was during his employment with the Lewis Ranch that Butch’s rodeo carrier began. After 13 months he was discharged and returned to Browning to break horses and herd cattle for Mrs. While in the Army he was assigned to the Mule Pack with the 611th field artillery where he learned to shoe horses and mules. He remained there until he was drafted into the U.S. He worked there until 1945, at which time he went to work for Berniece Lewis of Browning, Montana. Pendergrass, and together they had six children: Daniel, Barbara, Wayne, Tim, Theresa and Greg.īutch’s cowboy life began after his eighth grade education when he went to work for Westside Livestock, which was run by Wolf and Langman. One time, his dad's horse kicked him in the butt and out the barn door his dad's disgust hurt more than the kick, but even that didn't stop him from pursuing a life with horses.Įdward Francis O’Connell married Carolyn A. Edward, known as Butch to most people, received his education through the eighth grade at Franklin School in Great Falls, Montana.īutch has loved horses since he was knee high to a grasshopper, and this love grew despite his dad's warnings to stay away from them. MCHF & WHC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE 2015 Edward Francis "Butch" O'Connell (1927-2019)Įdward Francis “Butch” O’Connell was born November 9, 1927, to Thomas F.
0 kommentar(er)
