Lane Frost Biography Essay

Lane Frost Lane Frost was born on Oct. 12, 1963, in La Junta, and lived a life most cowboys know well. Clyde Frost, Lane’s father, rode saddle bronc and bareback on a rodeo circuit. His mother, Elsie, stayed with her parents while she was expecting Lane. It could be said that “cowboying”, as most Oklahoma cowboys call it, was in his blood. Frost started riding dairy calves on the family’s farm when he was five or six. He first rode a grown bull when he was nine. About this time, Frost met another legendary bull rider, Don Gay. Gay told Frost that he should stick to riding calves and steers until he got older. Elsie recalled, “We told him the same thing, but he wouldn’t listen. Of course, he listened to Don.” At fifteen he started riding bulls Regularly. Before that, however, he competed on calves and steers. He won his first rodeo awards at 10 years old. He won first in bareback riding, second in calf roping, and third in bull riding, while riding a calf. While rodeoing wasn't the way of life his parents exactly wanted for him, …show more content…
Frost made a name for himself in Oklahoma, when he won National High School Bull Riding Champion in 1981. He also won Bull Riding Champion of the first Youth National Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1982. After these victories, everyone knew him as being from Oklahoma, and Frost claimed it as his home. Frost joined the PRCA and began rodeoing full-time after graduating from high school in 1982. In 1985, he married Kellie Kyle, a barrel racer out of Quanah, TX. In 1987, he realized a lifelong dream when he became the PRCA World Champion Bull Rider at age 24. That same year, the great bull Red Rock, owned by Growney Bros. Rodeo Company, was voted Bucking Bull of the Year. In 309 attempts, no one had ever ridden him, and in 1988, at the Challenge of the Champions, Frost rode him in seven exhibition matches and was successful in four out of seven