For champion trick roper Gene McLaughlin, the world is a target. His 3-year-old grandson speeds past. McLaughlin draws a bead and lets fly. In seconds, the boy is roped like a calf. A visitor taking ...

To city slickers, high-flying trick roping is something best left to movie stars in Technicolor Westerns and to Colorado’s waning number of cowboys. But for Steve Cassat — also known as Cowboy Steve — ...