THE LEGACY OF THE LATE RODEO SUPERSTAR HAS ONLY GOTTEN STRONGER SINCE HIS TRAGIC PASSING AT CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS 35 YEARS AGO.
HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND FAMOUS FANS REMEMBER HIM IN AN UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY FILM.
“Wouldn’t it be neat if they made a movie out of me?”
It’s a late Tuesday evening in Atoka, Oklahoma. Elsie Frost recollects decades-old conversations she had with her son, the late great Lane Frost. That morning, she was watching a passel of great-grandchildren, and that evening, she was prepping “rodeo nachos” to bring to her local church. Now sitting in her recliner at the end of a busy day, Elsie, 84, took a brief pause to field my phone call.
Thirty-five years ago, Elsie lost Lane, the magnetic professional bull rider who died post-ride at the 1989 Cheyenne Frontier Days. Lane was the 1987 PRCA World Champion bull rider, a five-time NFR qualifier, and the only cowboy who successfully completed an 8-second ride on the indomitable bull, Red Rock. Broad-smiled and handsome, with dark hair peeking from underneath tall-crowned cowboy hats, wearing pearl snaps and stacked wranglers held up by impressive trophy buckles, Lane was the quintessential all-American cowboy.
His physicality was
