Background
Charlie Morgan Evans was born to rancher Andrew Jackson Evans, Senior, and his wife Grace Morgan in the community of Huff, Texas in Archer County.
Charlie Morgan Evans was born to rancher Andrew Jackson Evans, Senior, and his wife Grace Morgan in the community of Huff, Texas in Archer County.
The World Series Rodeo is now known as the National Finals Rodeo (or "NFR"). Cowboy Evan"s championship is recorded in the Rodeo Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The family was of Scottish and Welsh descent.
As an adult, in 1942, Evans legally changed his birth name from Charlie to Charles, but his rodeo name was the one that stuck in the minds of those who knew him.
Some oldtimers in parts of Arkansas, where he had a cattle ranch, still remembered Cowboy Morgan Evans in the local American folklore of the late 20th century. Cowboy Evans was known for his unique rodeo steer wrestling competition style of wearing one Western riding boot and one low quarter standard shoe for ease of quick dismount from his horse.
He competed in many rodeos across the United States in both bulldogging and bull riding prior to winning the 1927 world championship. He worked as a roughneck in the oil exploration and drilling industry, and eventually became a drilling foreman and oilman.
In the early 1930s, Evans toured the United States on the rodeo circuit while maintaining his home of record in Henrietta, Texas.
He received his 33rd degree almost two decades later. Cowboy Morgan Evans died at home in Bonham, Texas, of an apparent heart attack.
He was buried in a Christian ceremony in Bonham, and his life and legacy were honored by his fellow members of Chapter 52 of the Royal Architecture Masons.
