Warren Granger "Freckles" Brown (January 18, 1921 – March 20, 1987) was a hall of fame American rodeo cowboy from Wheatland, Wyoming.
[citation needed] Brown enlisted to join the U.S. army, and undertook basic training in Fort Sill.
He was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and "did his part by helping to train Chinese paratroopers in secret".
[1] The war ended in the summer of 1945, and Brown "returned to China to compete in a Red Cross-sponsored event in which U.S. pack mules were used in place of saddle-broncs and barebacks and native cattle were rounded up for bull riding.
He was operated on and put in traction for 34 days, followed by a plaster cast "from his waist to the top of his brow for over 2 months".
[4].During that year he won the World Bull Riding Championship at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) while he was on the sidelines watching.
[17][18] He was a friend and mentor to bull riding champion Lane Frost, who is buried next to him in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Hugo, Oklahoma.