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man to win a team roping world championship in 1991," he tells the Gillette News Record (http://bit.ly/Jq2TT4 ). "I'm just a kid that grew up in Wyoming and went to a country school."
• After thirty years of rodeoing, he knows the road. That hasn't changed much since he cut down his PRCA schedule a few years back. In May, he'll take the Bobby Harris Roping School to Chicago. The summer schedule also includes Hermiston, Ore., Idaho Falls, Idaho, and sessions in Montana and South Dakota.
• But recently he was home and his attitude reflected it.
• "Gillette's always been home," he said, as if he just liked the sound of saying it out loud.
• As each steer broke from the chute with team ropers giving chase, Harris would follow the action, barking suggestions and ideas for improvement.
• "That's good, very good," he told Anna Jorgenson as she flew down the arena.

• The Gillette 10-year-old rode like someone who was born in the saddle.
• Her mom, Pam, and sister, Sam, were also in the class of 25 headers and heelers. Anna roped her steer almost every time, though it looked like one good pull might unseat the pony-tailed youngster.
• Harris, who was both a Wyoming High School all-around champion and the PRCA rookie of the year in steer roping in 1978, knows it all has to start somewhere.
• "I'm 49 years old and I've probably been roping 40 years of that," he said

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