No matter how farfetched those silent movies featuring those hard riders of the silver screen; many of the actors including Tom Mix, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Buck Jones and Yakima Canutt had been rodeo champions; others had been working cowboys earning $30 dollars a month and found themselves earning that much in a day in Hollywood. Of those, Art Acord was one of the best and most daring.
He won the Steer Wrestling Championship in the Pendleton Roundup in 1912 and 1916. He’s also one of th
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