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C. B. Irwin, 1906, photo by J. E. Stimson |
Irwin's time was 38 1/5 seconds. The above photo is one of Stimson's more noted photographs. The writer has observed a copy of it on the wall of a cowboy theme restaurant in Florida. In addition to promoting wild west shows, Irwin was a lobbyist for the Union Pacific and In 1909*, a little known cowboy who had previously appeared in Widerman's Wild West Show entered the calf-roping and Bronco-busting contests. The cowboy drew a horse named Sabile. The cowboy's wife, Olive Stokes (Mrs. Tom) Mix was in the stands. In the box next to her belonging to the plains hotel was the stock contracor for Frontier Days was Charles B. Irwin (1875-1934). Mrs. Mix overheard Irwin's comment to no one in particular as to the cowboy then in the arena that he wo
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Charles Burton (CB) Irwin was born on August 14, 1875 to Joseph Marvin Irwin and Mary Margaret Irwin. The Legacy of C.B. Irwin and The Y-6 Ranch | KC History ...
Charles Burton “C.B.” Irwin was a significant figure in the early days of Cheyenne Frontier Days™.
The Legacy of C.B. Irwin and the Y-6 Ranch - True West Magazine
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 shop alongside his father.