Bill Text: TX SR54 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulating Wes O'Neal of Holliday on receiving the 2022 Working Cowboy Award from the Ranching Heritage Association.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-01-24 - Reported enrolled [SR54 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR54-Introduced.html
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| By: Springer | S.R. No. 54 | |
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| WHEREAS, Wes O'Neal of Holliday was presented with the 2022 | ||
| Working Cowboy Award by the Ranching Heritage Association at the | ||
| National Golden Spur Award dinner on October 15 in Lubbock; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Ranching Heritage Association is a national | ||
| nonprofit membership organization that supports the programs of the | ||
| National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University; the | ||
| association's Working Cowboy Award recognizes individuals who make | ||
| their primary living on horseback, caring for livestock; honorees | ||
| are skilled in all aspects of their trade and are respected by their | ||
| ranch crew and the ranching community at large; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Wes O'Neal was born in Clarendon during the Great | ||
| Depression; his first ranch experience came at the age of 13, when | ||
| he and his brother broke broncs to help support their family, and | ||
| his career in the saddle has now spanned nearly eight decades; he | ||
| worked for the historic JA Ranch in the Texas Panhandle, and in | ||
| 1957, he was hired on at the W. T. Waggoner Ranch, which was the | ||
| nation's largest ranch under one fence before being sold in 2016; he | ||
| spent 58 years there, serving as wagon boss with the cattle | ||
| operation and for a quarter century as horse foreman; thanks in | ||
| large part to his expert oversight of horse breeding on the ranch, | ||
| W. T. Waggoner in 1994 received the coveted American Quarter Horse | ||
| Association Best Remuda Award; today, Mr. O'Neal works for the Four | ||
| Sixes Ranch near Guthrie; and | ||
| WHEREAS, An admired role model for younger cowboys across the | ||
| Lone Star State, Wes O'Neal has furthered the rich legacy of | ||
| ranching that is so closely tied to the history of Texas, and he is | ||
| indeed deserving of this prestigious honor; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Senate of the 88th Texas Legislature | ||
| hereby congratulate Wes O'Neal on his receipt of the 2022 Ranching | ||
| Heritage Association Working Cowboy Award and extend to him sincere | ||
| best wishes for the future; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for Mr. O'Neal as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
| Senate. | ||
