Clayton Danks

Clarence Clayton Danks was a threetime winner of Cheyenne Frontier Days, an outdoor rodeo and western celebration held each July in the Wyoming capital city of Cheyenne. He is believed to be the cowboy of the widelyrecognized Wyoming state trademark, the Bucking Horse and Rider.

The son of John Danks and the former Sarah Gregg , Danks was born in ONeill in Holt County in northern Nebraska. Clayton and his brother, James T. Jimmie Danks, were reared in Long Pine Canyon in Cherry County, also in northern Nebraska, where their father operated a stagecoach station. Clayton and Jimmie subsequently worked on the Two Bar Ranch in Chugwater in Platte County, Wyoming, near Cheyenne. Clayton thereafter homesteaded in Valentine in Cherry County. He and his wife, the former Marie L. Fitger , had one child, whose name is not revealed in cemetery and birth records. Jimmie Danks and another brother, Harry, settled in South Dakota. A fourth brother made his home in Niobrara County in eastern Wyoming.

Source: Wikipedia