Former 101 Ranch Cowboy Tex McLeod, Dies Ponca City News February 21, 1973 Word of the death of a 101 Ranch Oldtimer, Tex McLeod has been recieved by Mike Sokoll, president of the oldtimers organization. McLeod died January 31 in Birmingham, England. A British friend of the former Oklahoma cowboy, John M. Hall, wrote Sokoll that McLeod collapsed in a street not far from his home. He was rushed to a hospital but efforts to revive him were to no avail. McLeod, who was 82 or 83 years of age, remained in England when the 101 Ranch Wild West Show broke up there in 1914. With World War 1 under way, the British government commandeered the show’s horses. McLeod later was a trick roper with the wild west show of the Kemp Sisters of Liverpool, England, which performed in Great Britain and Western Europe. Hall had written Sokoll last summer, quoting McLeod as saying he would like to see the old place (101 Ranch) again and meet some of the old timers who were there when he was (1911 and 1912). The cowboy was a bronc rider, also was one of the 101’s big four ropers along with Sam Garrett, Hank Darnell, and Chester Byers. He became world champion fancy roper at Calgary in 1912.