'I talked to (LeDoux) about every two weeks and he told me things were going OK.' 'It about knocked me off my horse,' Holman said.

Holman said he was riding a horse Wednesday when his cousin, Kaycee cowboy John Forbes, called to notify him of their friend's death. There was no quit to him,' said John Holman of Tracy, Calif., who grew up with LeDoux in Kaycee and later traveled with him to his first National Finals Rodeo. 'He had more guts and pride than anyone I'd ever known. In 2000, he underwent a liver transplant, and he was treated for cholangiocarcinoma, a cancer that affects the bile ducts, late last year.įriends recalled LeDoux as a courageous man who never let his pals down. LeDoux, one of the best-known entertainers in Wyoming's history, had battled liver disease for years. Photo by Dan Cepeda/Casper Star-Tribune.Ĭhris LeDoux of Kaycee, who first gained fame as a champion in the rodeo arena and then as a country music star, died Wednesday at a Casper hospital of complications from liver cancer. LeDoux died Wednesday from complications from liver cancer. Country singer and former rodeo champion Chris LeDoux sits with Kaycee Elementary School students after reading a story during a 'Read Across America' event March 1, 2002.

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