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Rex Trailer: Lassoing a special honor

  March 09, 2012

Massachusetts may be a long way from Montana. But that didn’t stop generations of Bay State boys and girls from dreaming about branding, herding, horsemanship, and cowboy crooning on the vast plains. And thanks to TV personality Rex Trailer, such dreams never seemed far-fetched. Legislation endorsed this week by the state’s tourism and cultural development committee marks Trailer, now in his 80s, as the state’s “official cowboy.’’

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