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A Rancher’s Big Heart Goes the Distance

by | Aug 1, 2005 | Features & Gunfights

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When C.B. Irwin rode into an arena and announced an event, he did not need a megaphone for this big man had a booming voice. Although his Stetson was usually white, C.B. wore many hats: husband, father, steer roper, rancher, showman, railroad special agent, horseman and promoter. Born Charles Burton Irwin to a blacksmith father and homemaker mother, he spent his early years in Kansas and Missouri before moving as a teenager to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he worked in the blacksmith sho


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