Articles written by Don Reid

Don Reid|Updated Jan 4, 2020

Editor's note: Rodeo legend B.J. Pierce, 93, died Dec. 26. He was a three-time world champion calf roper and was inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Hall of Fame in 2015. But many area residents remember him more for the three-plus decades he spent as an educator. I don't know what year B.J. Pierce went to work at Highland Elementary School, but I started first grade in 1957 and I don't remember a time when he was not there. On many occasions I felt...