Each year Cotton Rosser and
his Flying U Rodeo Company travel thousands of miles to more than 50
rodeos and bull-riding competitions in the Western United States.
Their home ranch is in Marysville, in northern California but Cattle
Call in Brawley is like a second home for them. Cotton often winters
some of the rodeo stock in and around Brawley.
“Cattle Call is
one of the finest rodeos in the country, bar none,” boasts Cotton, who
at 82 years old is still one of the most famous and successful stock
contractors in the business. “Cattle Call is the best managed, the
physical plant is perfect and the level of competition is outstanding.”
Cotton hasn’t been involved with Cattle Call for all of its 54
years. He came on the scene in the early 1960s when he joined with Ed
Rutherford, an original member of the Rodeo Committee, to buy the
company.
