Fun accidents happen! We basically threw a dart at a map for a place to stop today. It wasn’t until we drove in that we learned that Kaycee was the home of Chris LeDoux.
From a Chris LeDoux song…”I can see you got your eye on this old cowboy
And I can tell you've never had one for your own
Or you've never been around one
Now you're thinkin' that you've found one
Well it might be kinda fun to take him home”…….Well yes please! I think maybe the 70 degree temps in Banff changing to 100 degree temps here may have gotten to me.
Seriously a one horse town, you gotta wonder why LeDoux picked Kaycee - population 267. Except for all the vastness for horses.
We wondered if someone actually rode this horse to one of the three bars in this tiny town.
We took the 2 minute drive (seriously) to the prettiest place in town - the Chris LeDoux Park.
Someone must water these hanging baskets 10 times a day to keep them living in this heat!
LeDoux died at age 56 from a fairly rare liver cancer. But he packed a bunch into his young life. After youth bareback rodeo championships, he went on to win the national bareback championship in 1976. He retired in 1980.
However, he was a singer songwriter selling his tapes out of the back of his truck at rodeos. He self published 22 albums - not wanting to sign a recording deal to keep his creative freedom. However in 1989, when Garth Brooks named him in Much too young to feel this damn old song - he shot to national recognition. He signed with Liberty Records and recorded and performed for another 10 years before his death in 2005.
Chris and Garth were good friends and Brooks even offered a part of his liver but wasn’t a match.
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