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Ranching Heritage important to team roper
Local rancher and roper Julie Taylor says she was born to rope and ride. Taylor is a nationally acclaimed roping champion who specializes in heading. Team roping is a two-person equestrian event where one rider throws a rope under a steer’s hind legs, and the other rider throws a rope over the head, thus her title as header. According to Taylor, her cowboy ways go back to before the turn of the century when her family made the decision to follow a dream.
Taylor’s family began raising cattle soon after arriving in Tonto Basin. The land was better suited for creating a rock garden than cattle ranching. They struggled to keep their ranching way of life alive in the face of government regulations, which limit their ability to continue, all the while raising a family and helping build a cowboy church as a part of a worldview unique to the West and its way of life.
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