Ray Maple's family came to Wyoming in 1917, homesteading north of Douglas near the Bozeman Trail. He has been featured in several TV series and was a key character in a TNT film, "Big Guns Talk - The Story of the Westerns." He has performed at the Festival of the West in Phoenix, Arizona, The Western Outlaw Festival in Laramie, Wyoming, and the Cheyenne Cowboy Symposium in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Ray and his wife, Jackie, have been designated by the Park County, Wyoming, County Commissioners to be Park County's Cowboy and Cowgirl Ambassadors: Tom O'Day and Bronco Nell.