GREYBULL, Wyo. — At high noon in a crook of the Bighorn Mountains, the sorrel danced nervously inside the corral, as a lanky cowboy moved in to start breaking the colt — a practice as o… ...

Stalls, 30, is what rodeo people call a pickup man, and he's the last level of well-being between a cowboy hung up on a bareback rigging and a consultation with an orthopedist.

It isn't everyday that you meet a cowboy living in Minnesota. But it's even more rare when that cowboy is making strides as the only one in his profession -- in the history of the sport.

A top-end bucking horse can cost $50,000 or more, said Nate Morrison, sales coordinator for Benny Binion’s World Famous Bucking Horse and Bull Sale. “A few years ago at our sale, a horse sold ...