DUKE OF DUALITY
Feb 11, 2020
4 minutes
—G.R. Schiavino
Truth be told, it’s been a minute since Duke Beardsley spurred out of the box at a team roping.
“But it’s funny,” he said, “when I see it, I still get kind of edgy. It’s fun to be around and I did love doing it.”
Beardsley, 50, came to terms with a few things team roping nearly 25 years ago, chief among them the potential to lose a digit.
“I am definitely not good enough to not get hurt. People will ask why I quit roping and I’ll say, ‘I got good enough to cut my thumb off, and I kind of need it.’”
He does. Beardsley’s artistic accomplishments are many. His works
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