A half-century of arena smiles: Rick Young's rodeo legacy
Rick Young, a Hall of Fame rodeo clown known as the Ragin’ Cajun and later the Agin’ Cajun, entertained crowds for more than 50 years at Missouri’s Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo, surviving broken ribs, a broken leg and a broken jaw—plus memorable moments like a bull treating his outfit as hay—before retiring at 85.