TOM THREE PERSONS
Legend of an Indian Cowboya book By: Hugh A. Dempsey
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Tom Three Persons
Pinepound ReflectionsA History of
Spring Coulee and DistrictFrom Lethbridge Herald
page 21Memories of the first Indian world champion saddle bronc rider are still vivid in the minds of Blood residents. The legend of Tom Three Persons is as alive today as the day he won the saddle bronc riding at the Calgary Stampede in 1912.
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Tom Three PersonsPerhaps best described as Alberta’s most famous cowboy.
Born in March 1888 to Ayakohtseniki, Double Talker, a Blood woman, his natural father was a white trader and bootlegger by the name of Fred Pace....
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Read about detailsThe son of a Mountie recruit turned whisky trader and a native woman, he was raised on the Blood Reserve near Cardston and then briefly interred in a Catholic "industrial" school...
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