AKA Bernard R. Baranoski (1900 - 1968)

Three-time rodeo champion (portrait late 1940's).

Glenhive Round-up, Copy Right R.R. Doubleday 1916—this text is written faintly below white text on postcard which states “copy right Foster Photo Co., Miles City. A photograph of this postcard from Pinkey’s archive is dated 1919 in pencil.

1931 written on the back of the photograph. Pinkey text on boots. Rope outlined with black marker by Pinkey. Photograph by Ralph R. Doubleday.

1924 Champion All-Around Cowboy.

Circa 1930.

Newspaper publication created by John Hix, January 21, 1932.

"Strange as It Seems was distinguished for its adherence to Hix's standard that every published fact be verified by a minimum of three sources." 

"The Strange as It Seems syndicated cartoon strips were printed daily in newspapers from 1928 to 1970."

-Wikipedia

1929 written in pencil on back of postcard.

Pinkey ropes a horse while standing on his head. Grandstand Iowa State Fair grounds? [need to verify]

Pinkey Barnes at 101 Ranch in, "A Pictoral History of Performing Horses" by Charles Philip Fox. The book was published in 1960.

101 Ranch Real Wild West Champion Ropers ad, c. 1931-32.

“America” show; Robbins Bros. Circus, 1930.

Pinkey Barnes, c. late 1930's or early 1940's.

Pinkey, c. 1930's, at the 6666 Ranch (Four Sixes), Burkburnett, Texas.

Pinkey Barnes doing a stunt for John Wayne in Winds Of The Wasteland, 1936.

Pinky Barnes doubling Reb Russell in Lightning Triggers, 1935.

Pinkey doubled Jack Perrin in Texas Jack, 1935. Photograph dated 1934 on back in pencil.

Movie card from Texas Jack, 1935, starring Jack Perrin.

Bulldog from a wagon. Movie card from Defying The Law, 1935.

Starring Jack Perrin and Blanche Mehaffey--she was formally of the Ziegfeld Follies.

Starring Tom Tyler, Joan Barclay and Rex Lease.

Gene Autry, Lois Wilde and Pinkey Barnes.

Gene Autry, Lois Wilde and Pinkey Barnes.

Pinky in large lobby card poster (below pink dot).

Pinkey in the back row.

"Killer" in Sutter's Gold, 1936, starring Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy and Binnie Barnes.

Lobby card with Pinkey (far left) as one of the Singing Buckaroos.

Wife of Pinkey Barnes, c. 1940's. They met in Chillicothe, Missouri in 1939. She was beauty operator before the two paired in vaudeville acts, rodeos and circus shows.

Mabel, Horse Rex and Pinkey on stage, circa early 1940's.  Possibly photographed at the Fox Tower Theater, Kansas City (stage shows at the Tower continued until 1947 — one of the last vaudeville houses in the country when it switched to movies-only). Pinkey stated in Mabel's obituary that they lasted played the Tower Theater in 1941.

Early 1940's Bloom Photographers, Chicago, IL.  "Largest and Best Equipped Posing Rooms in the Country." Bloom Photographers was located in the State-Lake Theatre.

State-Lake Theatre in Chicago opened in 1919. The theater started presenting movie-only shows in 1941.

Rex and Mabel doing a trick taught to Rex by Pinkey, mid 1940's.

a photograph of Pinkey Barnes from Barnes Studio in Sibley, Iowa, circa late 1940's or early 1950's. The Iowa State Fair grandstand?

Pinkey and Mabel, c. 1949, Al G. Kelley & Miller Bros. Circus.

Mable Barnes shortly before she was paralyzed from a fall from a circus ladder in 1949 (The license plate on trailer has a 1949 registration sticker on it.) Al G. Kelley & Miller Bros. Circus.

Mable in her wheelchair after a fall from a circus ladder in 1949, Albion, Michigan.

Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. Circus, c.  1956.

"Started in 1938 by Obert Miller and his sons, Kelly and Dory, the Al G. Kelly Miller Brothers Circus, now known simply as Kelly Miller, has entertained millions of American and Canadian citizens while establishing itself in the fabric and history of the American Tented Circus."

-Kellymillercircus.com 

Pinkey and his performing Liberty horeses, Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. Circus, c. 1956.

Poster with performing Liberty horeses, Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. Circus, c. 1960's.

Mabel and Pinkey with a show friend; Al G. Kelley & Miller Bros. Circus

Mabel's death notice on the front page of the Kansas City Star, November 14, 1962. Mabel was buried in Meadville, Missouri, 1962.

Pinkey performing at Animaland at 6200 Gratiot Avenue, Richmond, Michigan, c. mid 1960's.

a letter sent to Helen and Orval Somerville, Milford, Michigan dated July 31, 1968. Pinkey died December 13, 1968 in Michigan and was buried in Milford, Michigan.

Sinclair Coal Company, Detroit

Photograph dated 1931. Boots also in family portrait with Flora and Donald (undated).