Kaycee, Wyo., cheers opening of Chris LeDoux park, 5 years after death of rodeo cowboy, singer
By APThursday, June 17, 2010
Kaycee, Wyo., celebrates opening of LeDoux park
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Fans of Chris LeDoux (luh-DOO’) are traveling from far and wide to remember the late rodeo and country music star at the Saturday opening of a memorial park in his adopted hometown in Wyoming.
The Chris LeDoux Memorial Foundation built the park in Kaycee and commissioned its centerpiece — a bronze, larger-than-life sculpture of LeDoux spurring a bronc during a bareback ride.
LeDoux won the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association bareback title in 1976 and sold more than 5 million albums during his music career. He died of liver cancer in 2005 at age 56.
The LeDoux family still lives on their Kaycee-area ranch.
Organizers don’t know how many people are coming this weekend, but expect tour buses from Colorado, Michigan and Missouri.
Online: www.chrisledoux.com/home.cfm
