Rodeo was a way of life on the Phillipps’ Calamus River Ranch. Both parents, Dale and Elizabeth Bell Phillipps, were active rodeo and horsemanship people. There was no time for high school rodeos, but at the age of 13, Mick Phillipps went to work for Larry Hollenbeck this summer. After the ranch work was finished…
Editor’s Note: The Sandhills Cowboy Hall of Fame is inducting 11 new honorees with a ceremony June 11 in Valentine, Nebraska. Each week through mid-June, we will meet the inductees. Dave Knight represents the fourth generation of the HH Knight family homesteaded and Kinkaided in the North Platte River Valley, starting in 1886. Through the…
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