Only by chance did the Top Horse of the Ranch Rodeo at the Black Hills Stock Show in Rapid City, S.D., even get to compete in the ranch rodeo. Slim Shady, owned by Travis Krein.
By OLIVIA WIESELER
Scottsbluff Star-Herald
Travis Krein was 13 years old when he bought his first registered cow. Not long after, he bought the Broken Arrow brand from a rancher in Van Tassel, Wyoming. That was the beginning of what would soon become a large, multi-location family operation for buying, selling, breeding and raising low maintenance cattle.
Krein grew up on a ranch between Lusk and Newcastle, Wyoming, and he never really saw himself doing anything else.
âI always knew I liked buying and selling. I always did. I mean, I would trade pencils, or I would sell anything that I thought I could make a lot of money on,â he said. âI liked doing that, and I just always knew, and maybe it was I figured I wasnât smart enough to do anything else.â