Darrell Knight

Pete Knight: the Cowboy King Darrell Knight

Pete Knight was one of rodeo's first international superstars. A Canadian champion bronc rider who also won championships in the United States through the 1920s & '30s, as well as fans in Australia and Eurpoe. His earnings in the rodeo arena rivaled that of top business executives of his day, as well as professional atheletes. Happily married and with a newborn baby girl, his life was tragically cut short in the rodeo arena. His story eerily mirrors that of another rodeo legend, Lane Frost. Young, handsome, a superstar and at the top of his game, his life ended in a rodeo arena.