They put themselves between the bulls and their riders, who are often unable to defend themselves after rides. The idea is to ...

JJ Harrison's name comes up a half dozen times during the half-hour production meeting before the opening performance of the St. Paul Rodeo. He's expected to fill about a half hour of that night’s 2.5 ...

Rodeo clown and barrelman John Harrison’s wife, Carla Harrison, likes to tell him that he should never doubt the love between them is real. It’s definitely not superficial, anyway. “Little girls don’t ...

The rodeo clown applied streaks of white makeup to his weathered cheeks and gazed into the mirror one last time. After all these years, JJ Harrison still hated painting his face. He pulled a black ...

Calls with Leon Coffee are nothing new for John Harrison, so when the phone rang he didn’t give it a second thought. The two men met more than 20 years ago in Clovis, N.M., co-working a rodeo shortly ...