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A bull stands in it's holding pen while waiting to be moved to the chute at the George Paul Memorial Rodeo.

Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano never had a punch like the bull, Cowtown, owned by rodeo stock contractor, Howard Harris. Cowtown in four jumps ended a never equaled record established in 1968 by George Paul. Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , was the setting for the tenth annual National Finals Rodeo and Paul , Del Rio, Texas , could have won the Rodeo Cowboys Association bull riding world championship sitting in the stands. He had such a commanding lead for the world championship at the end of the season he didn't need to go to the World Series of professional rodeo, the NFR. But not competing did not occur to him.

Born March 5, 1947, George Paul grew up on the San Miguel Ranch in Mexico riding and living the life of a ranch kid. From an early age, if it bucked, George would try and ride it. Perhaps destiny brought Stoney Burke, a fictional rodeo champion...

First and foremost, in the unlikely event that I ever become famous, I would like to ensure that my name is not butchered in households across America. So that being said, my last name is pronounced, "KRES-GEE", or "KREZ-GEE"-not "KRESAGE" which is how most people generally pronounce it. Anyway, a little about me....Prior to my husband's retirement in January of 2015, I had spent 15 years as an Air Force wife. All of the years leading up to that I had spent as a military brat mostly in the state of Delaware where I grew up. In January of 2000, I became an orthodontist assistant; it was during that time of taking intraoral photos that I discovered my love of photography. FYI, that's probably the weirdest, "I discovered my passion for...