- Bryant Family 1ST GENERATION
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- Descended from practically every royal house of Europe
LAN ANN BRYANT BORN JUNE 9, 1961 IN GARDEN GROVE, CA
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LA MONTE BRYANT BORN MAY 6, 1962, IN GREELEY, CO
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CODY WAYNE BRYANT BORN JANUARY 11, 1965 IN WORLAND, WY
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LADY MICHELLE BRYANT BORN OCTOBER 26, 1967 IN WORLAND, WY
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SHANNON DAWN BRYANT BORN NOVEMBER 10, 1970 IN BELLINGHAM, WA
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- Bryant Family 2ND GENERATION
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- BRYANT (ROBINSON)
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LANNY WAYNE BRYANT
- BORN FEB 5 ,1939 IN AMARILLO ,TEXAS
- MARRIED JULY 23 ,1960 IN TACOMA , WASHINGTON
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WINNIFRED ANN (ROBINSON) BRYANT
- Descended from practically every royal house of Europe
- BORN NOVEMBER 22, 1942
- IN AMARILLO, TEXAS
- 2006 Trip to China
- 2007 Mission Trip to Africa
- 2007 Our Newest Family Member - Amber Dawn
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- December 25, 2004 - Children and their Spouses and Grandchildren of Lanny and Ann Bryant
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- Top row left to right Christopher,, Shannon, Matt, Christine, LaMonte, Jackie, Cody, Lady, Tim, Ann, Lanny
Middle row: Austin, Brittany, Cheridan, Brooke, Shelby, Brandon, Steve
Front row: Levi, Cheyenne, Lacy, Cassandra, Codi Jean, Jake,
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- Christopher, Cassandra, Austin belong to Monte and Christine, Brittany, Brooke, Codi Jean belong to Cody and Jackie, Brandon, Cheridan, Shelby belong to LanAnn
Steve and Lacy belong to Tim and Lady Jake, Cheyenne, Levi belong to Matt and Shannon.
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- Daughter Not in Photo: Lan Ann Bryant
- Number 16 Grand Son Shane Bryant Wolfe got here on earth to late for this group photo.
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- Grandchildren of Lanny and Ann Bryant, Birthday and Birth Place.
- LanAnn Bryant children
Brandon Wayne Bryant, 11-18-85, Missoula, MT
Cheridan Ann Bryant, 2-16-88, Fountain Valley, CA
Shelby Mae Casebolt, 4-22-91, Bozeman, MT
Lamonte Bryant children
Chris Ray Lopez, 12-20-86, Fountian Valley, CA
Cassandra Paige Bryant, 8-6-93, Santa Anna, CA
Austin James, 12-22-95, Mission Viego, Ca
Cody Wayne Bryant children
Brittany Barann Bryant, 1-31-90, Butte, MT
Brooke Ashley Bryant, 4-12-92, Livingston, MT
Codi Jean Bryant, 10-25-95, Missoula, MT
Lady Michelle (Bryant) Kramers children
Wes Allen Scott, 3-29-85
Stephen David Kramer, 6-11-88
Lacy Michelle Kramer, 11-19-00, Fullerton, CA
Shannon Dawn (Bryant) Wolfe children
Jake Mathew Wolfe, 2-6-96, Salmon. ID
Cheyenne Rose Wolfe, 10-10-97, Coeur d lene, ID
Levi David Wolfe, 11-3-01, Big Timber, MT
Shane Bryant Wolfe, 6-26-05, Livingston, MT
Amber Dawn Wolf, 4-3-07 Livingston, MT
- Cody James Wolf 8-28-08 Livingston, MT
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- Shelby, Brooke, Brittany, Cheyenne, Brandon, Codi Jean, Wes, Cassandra, Lacy, Austin, Cheridan, Steve, Jake,
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- July 6, 2001 - Grandchildren of Lanny and Ann Bryant
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- Our Grandchildren are descended from practically every royal house of Europe, from Italy to Norway and Germany to Ireland and everything in between. If they go to their 11th generation and explore the family of their 10th Great Grand Mother Catherine Beverly (1680- 1726) they will eventually discover that she was descended from practically every royal house of Europe, from Italy to Norway and Germany to Ireland - and everything in between. They have descended from Edward I (executed William "Braveheart" Wallace), King John (Younger brother of Richard the Lion-hearted), William the Conqueror, Malcolm Canmore (Scotland), Niall of the Nine Hostages (Ireland), Charlemagne Charles Martel (grandfather of Charlemagne; prevented the Moslems from entering northern Europe), Alfred the Great, Frederick Barbarossa. Holy Roman Emperor and many others. Their line is already-prepared genealogy that goes back to about 6 AD in West Franks.
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- Fascinating discoveries have been made while exploring our Genealogy. We have only seen the tip of the " Family" story yet to be told. You can scroll down this page and follow your lineage through 73 generations of your grandfathers and grandmothers to the year 0006 when Jesus was about 8 years old and discover Kings of Euorpe in England, Finland, France, Italy, Scotland, Spain and countries and lands you have never known. Knights, kings, princess counts and countess to your earliest known relative to date, Clodius II (Clodie) King Of The West FRANKS who was born about 0006 AD
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- On the Bryant-Robinson-Beverley Genealogy - we continue to be fascinated by what we found with continued research. Historian Bob Brown recently checked some of the Scottish genealogy and discovered that the Celtic Scots married Norwegians who descended from the same families that sent other sons to France. It takes time, but you can work back through the well-documented pedigrees of Robert Beverley.
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- Another area that fascinates us all is descent from at least three medieval Knights Templar. Two of considerable significance are Robert de Roos and William Marshal. Both men were protagonists at the negotiation of the Margna Carta in 1215. Robert de Roos was a rebel baron who did his utmost to weaken King John, while William Marshal made use of his awesome reputation - he was was probably the premier knight of his day - to preserve the royal powers. Marshall became a Templar on his deathbed and both men
are buried beneath the floor of the Temple Church in downtown London. The third Templar was possibly Raimond Berenger IV, a Spanish aristocrat who fought the Moslems.
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- James Alpha Purselley your 3rd Great Grand Father - 1819 Nov. 25 to 1907 Dec 20th Married Lucinda Osborn, Born 1810-Died 1864. James fought in the Northern Army, he had a leg wound which resulted in having it amputated. He moved from Kentucky to Arkansas in a covered wagon with his wife and children. He settled in the Black Oak community. His wife Lucinda died soon after they moved to Arkansas, there he raised his children. At a later time a blood clot formed in his forehead between his eyes, causing him to be blind, 16 years before he died. He lived with his daughter until his death.
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- Giles B. Calhoun and Mary F. (Irvine) Calhoun - 1820-1894 the 6th generation and your 3rd Great Grand Mother The Calhoun's moved to Red River County Texas about one year before the birth of Tennessee. Mary died about six weeks after her child Florence was born, she is buried in the Old City Cemetary. Giles sold his Manchester land and moved to Lamar County Texas. He settled near the Seven Mile Creek, a little southeast of Paris Golf and Country Club, Blossen Community. He married a second time to a women named Neal, she has a son, Jim, from a previous marriage. Giles and Neal had three children, Letha, Billy and Percy, they owned a shoe store in Paris, Texas.
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- The Old Calhoun Family (before Giles B. Calhoun - 1700-?). The Calhouns were believed to be originally from Scotland or Ireland. The elder Calhoun came to this country (US) and worked three years or so before sending for his family.
- The Calhoun's lived in Florence, Tennessee, where they owned and lived on a large plantation. The Calhoun's had many slaves, and were growers of tobacco. (James W. Booth, a grandson said the plantation was in Alabama.) The family fled their home in Tennessee due to a misunderstanding with the federal government over a tobacco tax. They said the slaves begged to come with them but the Calhouns said they were in enough trouble and they could not ride with them but could follow on foot at their own will. It is not known if the slaves came to Texas. It is believed they moved during or just before the Civil War.
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- William (CHOCTAW BILL) Robinson, the Choctaw indians gave him that nick name, that is your 3rd Great Grand Father and the Bryant 6th generation. William Robinson was the type of frontier preacher around whom legends and television programs have sprung. During a part of the week, he busied himself with his herds and farming operations. Come Friday, he addled his mule, sometimes a horse, and was off to a preaching point. He rode for long hours to make the Saturday meetings at now settlements or in visiting congregations he had established earlier. He rode his mule with his Bible and hymn book safely tied to his saddle; his bedroll and a few cooking utensils firmly placed behind his saddle. He was known far and wide as an ardent defender of the tenets of the Baptist faith. Landmarkism, a viewpoint originated by a Baptist group in Tennessee, was prominent along the frontier. This viewpoint was the belief that all denominations were false and spurious except the Baptist interpretation of the Bible. William Robinson held strictly to the Landmark viewpoint.
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- Wherever William Robinson went on his preaching missions, he found fellowship with brethren of the same views. Elder Samuel H. Powers, who lived in Parker County, was associated with Robinson in establishing Baptist churches. Elder Powers had surrendered to preach during the Civil War and was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1865. Early in his ministry he pastored the Dublin Baptist Church. He was a fearless Indian fighter. Elder Powers and William Robinson organized the Pony Creek Baptist Church and Shiloh Baptist Church in Erath County, and the South Leon and Zion Hall Baptist Churches in Comanche County.
- You can trace the Terrill lineage back to the year 1405. You might be intreged to know that your 5th Great Great Grandmother Mary Terrill who was born Feb 6, 1771 in Virgina is a descended from Edward I whose wife was a Spanish princess.
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- The Ewings line starts with your Grandmother Winnifred Pearl (Ewing) Robinson who are of Scottish descent, originally from the West of Scotland, near Glasgow. They were located on the River Forth, near Stirling Castle, in the vicinity of Loch Lomond. Their religion was Presbyterian. The reproduction of the coat of arms, was recognized by the Hon. Thomas Ewing family as coming from Scottish ancestors. Near the lower middle of the drawing is "Mask Ewing," short for Maskell Ewing.
- During the mid-1600's, there was great religious persecution of the Protestants in Scotland. According to the tradition of the Ewing clan, the Ewings of America trace their origin to six stalwart brothers of a Highland clan, who, with their chieftain, engaged in insurrection in 1685, in which they were defeated, their chieftain captured and executed and themselves outlawed. It is told that our Ewing ancestors first went from their seat on the River Forth to the Isle of Bute, in Scotland, and then settled at or near Coleraine, County Londonderry, of Ulster, in Northern Ireland. On July 12, 1690, members of the Ewing Clan took part in the Battle of the Boyne, fought on the river of that name in Eastern Ireland. In this battle, King James II was opposed by William of Orange who was fighting for the Irish Protestants. The result of this battle was the complete overthrow of James, thus forcing his abdication of the throne and establishing the rule of William and Mary. The anniversary of this battle is still celebrated by the Orangemen, or Irish Protestants.
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- Other Ewing History
- Recent research has shed some light on the ships that were used to transport the Ewings from Northern Ireland to America. The ship, Eagle Wing started transporting people to America as early as 1636. It was built to carry 140 passengers. The trip across the ocean would take six weeks or longer to complete. The fact that the different Ewing families were able to purchase land a short time after their arrival tells us a little bit about their status. Apparently they were able to pay their own transportation cost to America since we do not find any of them identified as indentured servants. When you research a number of deeds, you nearly always find that the Ewing men could sign their name. And, most often, the wife would sign her name with a mark. This one example appears to indicate the importance placed on the men being schooled and the women not being schooled. For more Information Click Here
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- The story continues as does our research. We have many more " Bryant Family" stories to tell you that will be placed on this site which is http://www.wrestlingusa.com/bryant.html. I f you have more information please e-mail us at wrestling@montana.com
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Wrestling's wordsmith
By JON KASPER of the Missoulian Missoula
Montana

Lanny Bryant and his son, Cody, sit in Lanny's basement where they and other
family members produce Wrestling USA magazine in Missoula last
week. Lanny, a former Missoula Hellgate and Montana State head
wrestling coach, will be enshrined in the National Wrestling Hall
of Fame
Photo by TOM BAUER/Missoulian
Missoula's Lanny Bryant to receive Order of
Merit honor for pioneering wrestling magazine
Nothing will top Stillwater, Okla. Not Poland, Russia, Mexico,
Sweden or Japan.
Wrestling took Missoula's Lanny Bryant around the globe. This
week, the sport that has been a part of Bryant's life for 50 years
leads him to the ultimate honor in Stillwater.
The 64-year-old editor-in-chief of Wrestling
USA magazine and former Missoula Hellgate and Montana State head
coach will be enshrined in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
on Saturday night. Bryant will be the 12th Order of Merit recipient.
The honor is presented "to an individual who has made a significant
contribution to the advancement of wrestling, other than success
as an athlete or coach.''
"What makes this, as I told Lanny, one
of the most prestigious awards is that it comes from the Distinguished
Members who have been voted into the Hall of Fame,'' said Hall
of Fame President Myron Roderick. "Lanny was nominated by
them and voted on by them. The Distinguished Members hold the
highest honor in amateur wrestling."
Bryant and roughly 35 family members will travel to Stillwater
for the three-day celebration which culminates with the honors
banquet Saturday night. Bryant said he'll be allowed five minutes
to speak.
"I'm just going to basically tell them
this isn't about me,'' Bryant said. "It's about all the people
in the sport of wrestling who have helped me out and who have
the same philosophy about what a great sport this is and what
it can do for the youth of America. Those are the persons who
deserve this honor more than one person."
Bryant said he was "stunned" when
Roderick, the legendary former Oklahoma State coach, called him
earlier this year with the news. Bryant said Roderick was one
of his boyhood heroes.
"We talked business for about 10 minutes,''
Bryant said. "And then he said, 'Oh, by the way, you've been
elected into the wrestling Hall of Fame.' It stunned me to death.
I didn't know what to say. It was quite a surprise, really it
was. It meant a lot to a guy who has been in the sport all his
life.''
Bryant made a huge impact during his successful
high school and collegiate coaching career - including helping
start Missoula's prestigious Rocky Mountain Classic - but his
work with the magazine is what landed him a spot in the Hall.
Bryant, a retired biology and physical education
teacher with no journalism experience, sought an outlet to promote
the sport, especially at the high school level. While Bryant was
coaching in Worland, Wyo., he and two other coaches put together
an eight-page black-and-white publication and called it Scholastic
Wrestling News.
"We struggled for the first two or three
years,'' Bryant said. "We kept losing money. Then after a
couple of years one of the coaches got out. He got tired of subsidizing
it. About 10 years later, the other coach got out.''
Bryant, who at the time was steering Hellgate's
program toward the top of the Class AA ranks, took full control
in 1976.
The latest edition featured 79 color pages. Roughly 15,000 copies
were sent to subscribers in all 50 states and 26 countries. The
magazine, designed and edited in the basement of Bryant's home
on Apple House Lane and printed in Kentucky, is published 12 times
a year and is a must-read for amateur wrestling fans.
The magazine's bread and butter is its coverage of high school
wrestling. Bryant relies on state editors to provide much of the
content.
"What he's done with the magazine is he
has really put the high school market throughout the United States,''
Roderick said. "He's done the best job ever at getting information
out about all the top high school wrestlers. That doesn't mean
he doesn't cover other things.''
The magazine features All-America high school
teams, as well as comprehensive features on the top freshmen,
sophomores, juniors and seniors in the country. Youth and collegiate
wrestling is also profiled, as are stories about training methods
and coaching techniques.
"He's totally in charge of it,'' said
Cody Bryant, Lanny's son, and the magazine's managing editor.
"He's the one who decides what material goes in and he's
the one who basically contacts the coaches and people like that.''
Cody, a three-time state champion at Hellgate
and the Knights' former coach, is one of several members of the
Bryant family involved with the magazine. Ann, Lanny's wife of
43 years, and their daughters LanAnn and Shannon are administrative
assistants. Another daughter Lady is the design and art director.
"It's amazing how people in the sport
of wrestling chip in and help out,'' Lanny said. "The state
editors feed us information. We get tons of photos. People donate
articles. It's just a matter of putting it together from that
point. The entire family has been involved since they were old
enough to lick stamps and not eat them.''
The magazine's Web site has added another element.
Lanny said he set up the Web site - www.wrestlingusa.com - after
buying a program and reading the instruction manual. In February,
the month most states hold their high school state wrestling tournaments,
the site received an average of 217,000 hits per day.
"His baby is the Web site,'' Cody said.
"He spends a lot of time on the Web site. He hates to leave.
He's trying to download information all the time.''
To promote the magazine, Lanny and Ann travel yearly to the Montana
all-class state tournament in Billings and the NCAA wrestling
championships. The two are also fixtures at national events and
will be attending the World Championships in New York later this
summer.
"I wasn't smart enough to know it couldn't
be done,'' Lanny said when asked about the success of his magazine.
"You always look for goals in life and one good thing about
being naive and young is you think you can accomplish a lot more
than you can."
Wrestling will take Lanny Bryant one other
place he's never been - the golf course.
Lanny, who had never golfed until Cody took him to the range last
week, plans to tee it up at Friday's golf outing in Stillwater.
"I want to try not to be last if I possibly can,'' Bryant
said.
Bryant has devoted 50 years to sport he loves
By Wade McWhorter
Sports Writer
News Press, Stillwater Oklahoma
Whether he's ever met them in person or not,
Lanny Bryant has had a profound affect on wrestlers, coaches and
fans across the globe.
Even so, Bryant had no idea of the impending
magnitude of a phone call he received from Myron Roderick several
months ago.
"I'd been talking business with Myron
for about five, 10 minutes - which we do on a regular basis -
when he says, 'Oh yeah, by the way, you've been elected into the
National Wrestling Hall of Fame,'" Bryant said. "I was
just speechless. I'm 64-years old and I've been at it (wrestling)
since junior high - this is the pinnacle for me."
Roderick is the President of the National Wrestling
Hall of Fame, and amongst the halls of the museum building at
405 W. Hall of Fame Ave. are scattered hundreds of copies of Wrestling
USA magazine.
Were it not for Bryant and a vision he had
nearly four decades ago, those magazines would not exist.
Bryant is the editor-in-chief of Wrestling
USA, and Saturday he will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame's Class
of 2003 as an Order of Merit recipient. It's a fitting honor for
a man who has devoted over 50 years of his life to wrestling and
considers himself part of "a real fraternity of people who
love and promote the sport."
Wrestling USA is an outlet for Bryant to share
with wrestling's legion of fans his lifelong love of the sport
- a love affair that began when his family moved from Amarillo,
Texas, to Colorado Springs, Colo.
Bryant, who was in his early junior high school
days at the time, entered a city wrestling meet soon after the
move and took second place. The next year, he won the meet.
But in fact, the competitors on the mat might
not have been Bryant's toughest challenge.
"My dad was a Southern Baptist minister,
and the tournament was on a Sunday - I had to do a pretty good
job of begging just to get to go," Bryant said.
His father's decision proved to be a good one.
Bryant competed in wrestling in high school and then at the collegiate
level at the University of Northern Colorado. He said he truly
fell in love with the sport in high school and became determined
to one day become a coach on the mats.
That dream came to life as Bryant dedicated
25 years of his life to coaching, including stints at Montana
State University and Western Washington State College.
It was during his time coaching that Bryant
first went into the publishing business, as he and two other coaches
spawned Scholastic Wrestling News.
"Amateur Wrestling already existed, but
it didn't cover scholastic wrestling," Bryant explained.
"We started out with an eight-page, black-and-white production,
but we were struggling and losing money. After three years, one
of the coaches got out and about eight years later the other one
got out. It was up to me at that point."
So despite having no journalism background
- Bryant is a former biology teacher - he gave up teaching and
coaching in 1987 and made publishing his family business.
"I had to learn all about journalism through
the school of hard knocks," Bryant said. "I got out
of teaching and coaching and got into the magazine full time.
We were still losing money at first, but then it started to grow
with all the time and energy we put into it.
"I had everyone helping - my five kids,
wrestlers - it's definitely a family business. The wrestlers would
help us mail it out after they finished with practice, and as
soon as my kids were old enough that they weren't eating the stamps,
they'd be helping us with the stamps and address labels."
Bryant said that as a former coach, he knew
what he liked to read and that helped his decision-making on the
content of Wrestling USA.
As Bryant's knowledge of the publishing business
grew, so did his magazine.
Now in its 38th year, Wrestling USA is a 64-page
magazine that prints 15,000 issues monthly and has subscribers
in 50 states and 26 countries.
The magazine includes features on the country's
top high school wrestlers as well as stories on weight training,
dieting and coaching techniques.
And Bryant's website - www.wrestlingusa.com
- gets 20,000 hits weekly, while in February, when most states
held their high school state wrestling tournaments, the site averages
217,000 hits per day.
It's the type of success story Bryant never
figured would happen.
"Absolutely not," Bryant replied
when asked if he expected Wrestling USA to blossom into a magazine
read throughout the world. "We started with the first ones
in black-and-white and only eight pages because if we started
too big we'd have been in big trouble. Now we've got 64 pages
all in color and our advertising and subscription list just keeps
growing.
"What we have now was always the dream.
We had a certain advantage because it's a specialized market."
And now, Bryant has become a specialized member
of the wrestling fraternity he so dearly loves.
Former UNC Wrestler To Be honored At The National Wrestling
Hall Of Fame Banquet
Lanny Bryant wrestled from 1958-62 at UNC.
STILLWATER,OKLA- Lanny Bryant (left) has spent
a lifetime devoted to wrestling. He was a very successful high
school and collegiate wrestler, an extraordinary high school coach
and administrator, a college coach and the founder and Editor-in-chief
of Wrestling USA Magazine.
Lanny competed in junior high school and high
school in Colorado Springs, and at the University of Northern
Colorado. He felt strongly that the schoolboy wrestler and his
coach were not receiving adequate information and recognition.
While teaching biology and coaching at Worland, Wyoming, he joined
with two other wrestling coaches with the same dream and Scholastic
Wrestling news was born. The magazine ran in the red for three
years and other two coaches were tired of subsidizing their dream.
In 1976 the Bryant Family became the sole owners of Wrestling
USA magazine, formerly Scholastic Wrestling News.
Bryant worked long hours, especially during
wrestling season. He taught five biology classes, conducted wrestling
practice, and then on weekends traveled to meets. All this and
publishing the magazine. In 1987 he retired from teaching and
coaching and took a leap of faith. Wrestling USA magazine became
a full time job. The decision was a good one as the magazine has
only gotten better. The magazine is now in its 38th years of publishing.
It is a 64 page all color quality magazine, and 15,000 issues
are printed each month. The magazine has subscribers in 50 states
and 26 countries. Bryant's website, which keeps current with the
latest wrestling results and tournament locations and dates, reaches
20,000 people each week. He is careful to keep both information
outlets focused on the positive aspects of amateur wrestling,
with an emphasis on scholastic wrestling.
Bryant's contribution to wrestling through
his publication is immeasurable. He has done more to elevate awareness
of the high school talent than anyone in the sport.
Bryant has also contributed to the sport of
wrestling by serving as a coach of the Montana and Wyoming High
School Cultural exchange Teams, the National Coach of the USA
Junior World Team, the USA Junior Teams to Russia and Poland,
and Team Leader for the USA World-Schoolboy Team in Stockholm,
Sweden, and Mexico City. He has become a fixture a the NCAA tournaments,
USA Wrestling Championships and other regional and national competitions
through the United States.
Lanny Bryant was inducted into the National
Wrestling Hall of Fame as an Order of Merit recipient during Honors
Weekend on June 7, 2003 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Wresting Hall of Famer returns to high school coaching at age 71
Wresting Hall of Fame Coach Returns to High School Coaching
MISSOULA, Mont. -- Lanny Bryant is a wrestling legend.
He\'s coached 35 Montana state champions.
He\'s the editor and owner of a nationally published magazine, Wrestling USA.
He\'s in two national wrestling hall of fames.
And after 23 years, he's back as the head coach of the sport he loves.
“My father [used to tell me], 'you know, a coach only lasts for about 4 or 5 years. Then they usually quit after 4 or 5 years,’” says Bryant. “Here I am at 71, out here coaching these kids.”
He last coached in 1987, as the head of Montana State. But the university dropped its wrestling program that year, and Bryant stopped coaching full-time, instead focusing on his magazine.
When the Big Sky job opened up, he applied, and was the obvious choice for the gig. Now, the Eagle wrestlers consider themselves downright lucky. Only in high school, they are being coached by a hall of famer.
“When we heard that he was going to be our head coach, I was like, 'what, really?',” says Big Sky senior Keenan Moreau. “We knew he was a big deal, and it kind of made us wonder why he wanted to come back from all of the success that he had.”
Why did Bryant come back? His magazine is successful and he's already reached the highest level in his sport. But, you can't keep down that kind of passion.
“You know, I've really enjoyed working with kids, I really have. It's been a lot of fun throughout the years, and it's more a hobby and a love, to work with high school kids,” says Bryant.
Bryant doesn't just show - he demonstrates. He’s known to mix it up with the kids at practice.
“At his age, at 71 now, he's still in here dressed out and he's doing moves on us and still teaching us a lot. He can still move for an old guy,” says Moreau.
“I actually got away [from Bryant], because I de-pantsed him. So I kind of cheated, but I got away,” says Big Sky senior Kyle Moyer. “He’s still got game.”
“It's amazing that I still can go out [and wrestle]. [I] use technique. Wrestling's not a matter of strength, it's a matter of technique. Strength helps, conditioning is really important, but technique is the important thing,” says Bryant.
As for the future, Bryant has no plans to go back into retirement anytime soon.
“As long as God gives me the health, and I have the ability to do so, I\'m gonna stick it out,” says Bryant. “The goal is to win another state title.”
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- Bryant Family 1ST GENERATION
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- BRYANT
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- Descended from practically every royal house of Europe
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LAN ANN BRYANT BORN JUNE 9, 1961 IN GARDEN GROVE, CA
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LA MONTE BRYANT BORN MAY 6, 1962, IN GREELEY, CO
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CODY WAYNE BRYANT BORN JANUARY 11, 1965 IN WORLAND, WY
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LADY MICHELLE BRYANT BORN OCTOBER 26, 1967 IN WORLAND, WY
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SHANNON DAWN BRYANT BORN NOVEMBER 10, 1970 IN BELLINGHAM, WA
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- Bryant Family 2ND GENERATION
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- BRYANT (ROBINSON)
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LANNY WAYNE BRYANT
- BORN FEB 5 ,1939 IN AMARILLO ,TEXAS
- MARRIED JULY 23 ,1960 IN TACOMA , WASHINGTON
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WINNIFRED ANN (ROBINSON) BRYANT
- Descended from practically every royal house of Europe
- BORN NOVEMBER 22, 1942
- IN AMARILLO, TEXAS
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- Bryant Family 3RD GENERATION
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- BRYANT (GAINES) ROBINSON (EWING)
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WILLIAM CASWELL BRYANT
- BORN NOVEMBER 12, 1918
- IN MAMBRINO, TEXAS
- MARRIED JAN. 16, 1938
- IN PLAINVIEW ,TEXAS
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MINNIE EVELYN (GAINES) BRYANT
- BORN SEPT 1, 1917
- IN TULIA, TEXAS
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ELBERT HUBBARD ROBINSON
- BORN MAY 11, 1918
- IN SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
- MARRIED JANUARY 27, 1940
- IN BELTON , TEXAS
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WINNIFRED PEARL (EWING) ROBINSON
- Descended from practically every royal house of Europe
- BORN AUGUST 13, 1918
- IN CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS (AT HOME)
- DIED MAY 10, 1979
- BURIED IN AMARILLO, TEXAS
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- Bryant Family 4RD GENERATION
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- BRYANT (PURSELLEY) GAINES (COKER) ROBINSON (LAND) EWING (HARRIS)
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WILLIAM ANDREW BRYANT
- BORN SEPT 2, 1882
- IN ACTON, TEXAS
- MARRIED OCT.21, 1900
- IN GRANBURY, TEXAS
- DIED MARCH 28, 1970
- BURIED IN BOVINA , TEXAS
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MELLISA BELLE (PURSELLEY) BRYANT
- BORN OCT 26, 1885
- IN EUREKA, ARKANSAS
- DIED JAN 26 ,1964
- BURIED IN BOVINA, TEXAS
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JAMES SAMUAL GAINES
- BORN JULY 6 ,1872
- IN MANCHESTER, TEXAS
- MARRIED JAN 24 ,1894
- IN BLOSSON, TEXAS
- DIED JAN 2, 1933
- BURIED IN BOVINA ,TEXAS
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EVALINA CATHERINE (COKER) GAINES
- BORN MARCH 7, 1877
- IN MANCHESTER , TEXAS
- DIED FEB. 22, 1974
- BURIED IN BOVINA, TEXAS
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HENRY GEORGE ROBINSON
- BORN FEBRUARY 22. 1886
- IN COMMANCHE, TEXAS
- MARRIED JUNE 9, 1909
- IN SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
- DIED JANUARY 10, 1960
- BURIED IN PANHANDLE, TEXAS
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CORA BELLE (LAND) ROBINSON
- BORN JUNE 4, 1887
- IN FLORENCE, TEXAS
- DIED AUGUST 7, 1952
- BURIED IN PANHANDLE, TEXAS
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ELMER ELLSWORTH EWING
- BORN MAY 9, 1866
- IN CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY
- MARRIED AUGUST 15 , 1908
- IN COVINGTON, KENTUCKY
- DIED JANUARY 22, 1950
- BURIED IN PANHANDLE, TEXAS
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MAMIE MAE (HARRIS) EWING
- Descended from practically every royal house of Europe
- BORN JUNE 18, 1888
- IN GRANT COUNTY, KENTUCKY
- DIED MARCH 10, 1972
- BURIED IN PANHANDLE, TEXAS
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- Bryant Family 5TH GENERATION
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- BRYANT (BUTLER) PURSELLEY (ORRELL) GAINES (LYON) COKER (CALHOUN) ROBINSON (GOSSETT) LAND (HENDERSON) EWING (PERRY) HARRIS (WEST)
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WILLIAM JOSHIA BRYANT
- BORN 1828
- IN TENNESSEE
- MARRIED DEC 20,1846 MARY STEWART
- IN CARROL CO. TENNEESSEE
- DIED IN 1890 ?
- BURIED IN HOOD COUNTY , TEXAS
- 1860 SCOTT CO.ARKANSAS
- 1870 HILL CO. TEXAS
- 1880 HOOD CO. TEXAS
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- DONNIE EDWINA (BUTLER) BRYANT
- BORN IN 1850
- DIED IN 1924
- BURIED IN ELECTRA TEXAS
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CASWELL PURSELLEY
- BORN NOV 29,1845
- IN ZION HILL . ARKANSAS
- MARRIED FEB. 25 ,1866
- IN ZION HILL, ARKANSAS
- DIED DEC. 17,1916
- BURIED IN HOOD COUNTY, TEXAS
- Moved to Hood county Texas in 1892.
- Family Records were burned when the
- freen forest, AR court house was
- destroyed by fire.
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- SARAH EMILY(ORRELL)PURSELLEY
- BORN MARCH 20, 1847
- DIED DEC.20, 1916
- BURIED IN HOOD COUNTY, TEXAS
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JAMES MONROE GAINES
- BORN NOV 20, 1830
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- SUSAN M (LYON) GAINES
- BORN DEC. 12, 1837
- DIED APRIL 19, 1905
- DIED MARCH 3, 1876
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CHARLES COKER
- BETTYE ELIZEBETH (CALHOUN) COKER
- BORN FEB. 12, 1845
- IN TENNESSEE
- NICK NAME WAS LIZZIE
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WILLIANSON MILBURN ROBINSON
- BORN MAY 12, 1837
- IN MARENGO COUNTY, ALABAMA
- MARRIED JUNE 4, 1861
- IN STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
- DIED JANUARY 1, 1924
- BURIED IN CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO
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- MARY JANE (GOSSETT) ROBINSON
- BORN DECEMBER 27, 1846
- IN KAUFMAN, TEXAS
- DIED SEPTEMBER 28, 1939
- BURIED IN CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO
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EMILY JOSEPHINE (HENDERSON) LAND
- BORN IN ARKANSAS
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ROBERT MILTON EWING
- BORN AUGUST 19, 1838
- MARRIED NOV23 1865
- DIED IN SEPT 3, 1914
- FOUGHT ON THE UNION SIDE DURING
- THE CIVIL WAR
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- MARY JANE (PERRY) EWING
- BORN JULY 13, 1847
- DIED NOVEMBER 27, 1932
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FRANK LEE HARRIS
- Descended from practically every royal house of Europe
- BORN FEBRUARY 5, 1857
- IN HARRISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY
- MARRIED NOVEMBER 20, 1883
- IN COVINGTON, KENTUCKY
- DIED FEBRUARY 26, 1916
- BURIED IN FRNKLIN, OHIO
- MOVED TO TEXAS IN 1915
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- MARY ELLEN (MOLLY) (WEST) HARRIS
- BORN SEPTEMBER 26, 1865
- IN GRANT COUNTY, KENTUCKY
- DIED MAY 27, 1898
- BURIED IN GRANT COUNTY, KENTUCKY
- SCHOOL TEACHER FROM KENTUCKY
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- Bryant Family 6TH GENERATION
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- BRYANT PURSELLEY (OSBORN) LYON CALHOUN (IRVIN) ROBINSON (FULFORD) LAND (LOVITT) EWING (MAKEMSON) PERRY HARRIS (THOMPSON) WEST (DAY)
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JOHN H BRYANT
- b. 1805, Machias, Maine.
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- DIED IN 1857
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- ELIZABETH
- BORN IN 1807 IN GEORGIA
- 1830 HUMPHRIES TN
- 1840 HICKMAN CO KY
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JAMES ALPHA PURSELLEY
- BORN NOV. 25, 1819
- DIED DEC 20,1905
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- LUCINDA (OSBORN)
- BORN 1810 IN KENTUCKY
- DIED 1864 IN ARKANSAS
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LYON
- BORN JAN 9 ,1807
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- ELIAZA ANN
- BORN FEB 19 ,1839
- DIED JULY 1892
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GILES B CALHOUN
- BORN 1820 IN
- FLORANCE TN
- MARRIED 1840
- DIED JULY ,1892
- CALHOUN WAS FROM IRELAND OR SCOTLAND
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- MARY F (IRVIN) CALHOUN
- BORN 1820 IN TN
- DIED CLARKSVILLE, TX
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WILLIAM ROBINSON (CHOCTAW BILL)
- BORN JAN 11,1809 NC
- APRIL 16 1828 MARGO CO AL
- DIED FEB 22, 1898 COMANCHE, TX HEZEL DELL, TX
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- JULIA LUCINDALL (FULFORD)
- DARK FRENCH
- DIED BETWEEN 1842-1846
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JAMES HENRY LAND
- NANCY LOVITT