"And so in '79 I thought, 'well, they need something they can wear year round,' so I incorporated the badge … into the buckle ... Belt buckles have long been an important part of a cowboy ...

A prized gold and silver belt ... it's a big thing" he said. "I was the first man, first cowboy to ever win money in professional rodeo in America, 1959." In the same year Holder won the buckle ...

Australian police are investigating the theft of a prized gold-and-silver rodeo belt buckle from the the NSW home of the world's oldest cowboy. Bob Holder won the buckle in 1959 at Sidney, Iowa, in ...