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The silhouette of the horse and rider is still in use today on uniforms of the Wyoming National Guard soldiers. Clayton Danks , a Nebraska native who died in 1970 in Thermopolis, Wyoming , [ 4 ] is believed to be the cowboy on an earlier version of the Bucking Horse and Rider symbol.
According to the Wyoming Secretary of State Office, the "Bucking Horse and Rider" trademark was first copyrighted in 1936. The copyright was originally in the name of Wyoming Secretary of State Lester C. Hunt and transferred to the state of Wyoming in 1942 .
Embossed white serial and Bucking Horse and Rider on Columbia blue plate with border line; "WYO 62" at bottom right 1-1234 1-123A 1/0-1234 1/0-123A Coded by county of issuance (1 or 1/0) 1963 Embossed white serial and Bucking Horse and Rider on black plate with border line; "WYO 63" at top right 1-1234 1-123A 1/0-1234 1/0-123A
The inspiration for the Wyoming Bucking Horse and Rider based on his 1909 riding of the horse Steamboat at the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo Clarence Clayton Danks (July 21, 1879 – June 23, 1970) was a three-time winner of Cheyenne Frontier Days , an outdoor rodeo and western celebration held each July in the Wyoming capital city of Cheyenne .
The silhouette of a cowboy on a bucking bronco is the official symbol for the State of Wyoming. [13] In 2016, the Bucking Horse Breeders Association (BHBA) was founded to serve as a bucking horse DNA registry for the purpose of documenting and preserving the names and lineages of bucking horses. [14]
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