Longtime Louisiana Rodeo Clown Inducted Into Gladewater Hall of Fame

By Jordan Green

Longview News-Journal

Taking a bull by the horns isn’t so bad, but being taken by a bull’s horns is. Rick Young knows the feeling well.

In his 70-year career as a rodeo clown and bullfighter, Young has been gored, thrown, run over and otherwise beaten by big, bad beastly bovines. But that’s not to say he didn’t put up a good fight. The Louisiana man was known as the Ragin’ Cajun.

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