Maxwell Butte Team Wins Ranch Rodeo

The 2024 Powder River County Ranch Rodeo was held last Friday. The rodeo was dedicated to Jim Wilson and Slug Mills, former Powder River County residents and supporters of the rodeo. Six teams competed in the four events of the rodeo. The first event was "stray gathering", where teams roped two steers by head and heeling. The second event was "sort and doctor", where the team kept a group of steers contained while sorting a designated individual from the herd, then roping and marking the yearling. "Trailer loading" was the third event, with teams roping two steers and loading them onto a trailer parked in the middle of the arena. The final event was the "scramble" combining all three previous events into one big event, with teams and cattle going all directions at once to complete the tasks in under three minutes.

Here are the first place teams in each event, with their winnings and time in minutes and seconds.

1st Stray Gather: $800/Team 1.43

The Glennie Ranch (Delon Parker, Jason Carlson, Hunter Carlson, and Jace Crabb)

1st Sort and Doctor: $800/Team 1.02

The Glennie Ranch (Delon Parker, Jason Carlson, Hunter Carlson, and Jace Crabb)

1st Trailer Loading: $800/Team 1.22

Maxwell Butte Ranch (Lane Krutzfedlt, Tristan Setzer, Henry Hollenbeck, and Shawn Bessette)

1st Scramble: $800/Team 2.31

Maxwell Butte Ranch (Lane Krutzfedlt, Tristan Setzer, Henry Hollenbeck, and Shawn Bessette)

The average winners were as follows:

1st -$5,560/Team 20 points

Maxwell Butte Ranch

(Lane Krutzfedlt, Tristan Setzer, Henry Hollenbeck, and Shawn Bessette)

2nd - $3,336/Team 15 points

Runnin' Late Ranchers

(Josh Graff, John Henry Beardsley, Taylor Williams, and Brady Williams)

3rd - $2,224/Team

Northern Car Brokers 14 points

(Sam Huffman, Wade Monnens, Prestyn Novak, and Austin Visser)