p. Two East Orea'oni&n Round-Up Souvenir Edition Per dleton. Oregon, Thursday, September, 24, 1913 Twenty-foif Pages A GlimpseBehindtheScenesatRound-l)p It Require Work to Stage the Show Bat Knowledge of the Cowboy and the Range it Firtt Eesential vmm Kane Hwkrpi Wanted. .wherever he goes and for exhibition Why mart a round-up have such purposes only will take the old horse excellent buckers? That brings up out. rope, but and hog tie a steer in the necoBd important consideration, less than thirty seconds without j the character and peculiarities of the bridle, halter or anything; on the cowboy. Now a (rood cowboy rider horse's head. Should the manare- illl ride an ordinary bucking horse ment tell McCarty that they didn't before breakfast and think nothing have room in their stablea for that rsnire of pawlon and emotions of the j of it, but when he foes out to ride at piece of excess baggage he would ra y.iunt old wett. ' j the Round-up for a championship be- load his entire outfit and go back. It has its Caruwit and Melbaa, its j f,,re a packed grand stand of thirty- never again to return to the Round Wetmr and Field, and its orchestra five thousand people, he wants a op. la the great symphony of the sage j horse that no one else can ride. Ha While the cowboy is always moral- bruh plain, bunch grass hills, moun-; doesn't bet that he will ride the horse ly convinced some one is trying to Watrhlug the production or stag ing of a lfund-up from behind the ren is a revelation to one not fa miliar with the work of the impresa rio who produces these grand operas of Ihr, cow country. The champion ship bu king nnd ioUto or quick change rsc.-s. run the gamut of the tains and vallexs of the once prince ly domain of the cattle barons. Its hberetto is made after the evening song of the coyote, the plaintive lulla- but he is st a kins his whole reputa- j00 him he can always be depended tlon on this cme throw of the dice, upon to go through with his program He knows that if he rides Angel or jf prperlv handled, otherwise he will U n Tom to a finish he will have all sulk and mope around and go away hj s of the murmuring pine and hem- that glory and renown of which his thoroughly disgusted without any Jfk, and the thundering diapasons orjdasj, are inortlinately fund. While reai or apparent reason for It. His the stampede. The nifht hawk in hisjn the other hand if he rides a little peculiarities must be understood and silent watches when he sang his plain- j g,at jumper and wins he feels dis- properlv administered unto to get him live ballad to quiet the restless herd ) Fr(kcri by seeing a scho.d boy mount to go into the arena strutting like he in the day when the wst was young . ar,d ri!e the same horse perhaps the as the old lord of the cow country. and no mote lonely than his entire dav or the next week. people are today ho look with sink- . The champion cowboy is not riding ing heart upon the fields of waving. ! f,,r the purse. ' If he were he would growing grain where once the Jack.' prefer w hat Is known as "show buck rabbit wended its myriad ways and ;frs-" hors-s which he could ride to a the coyote sought consolation in i finish with all that cowboy class speaking with the preat stillness. ; which is so essential in good riding And he is simple as a child, a little boy grown very big. the most gener ous hearted person on the face of the earth until he thinks you are try ing to hand him something when adamant is pliable beside of him. If he is hurt and goes to the hospital he Hound-ups repretent and reproduce! He could win a purse every day in j, gure to have a grouch and a griev- the sports and pastimes, passions and j emotions of the last of thls old west, race, which, like the Indians, dissolves Itself into nothingness with the ad vent of civilisation. There are the week with show buckers but any j hince. When he comes out limping other cowboy and & great many who on crutches a director goes to him are not cowboys could do the fame , and says: "Well. Bill, I suppose the thing. What your real, true cowboy a riding for is the distinction of be- ment decides antU the week lmraedi ately preceding the opening day when he la ridden every day. No, that Is wrong. He Is not ridden. He la mounted and made to do his buck Ing stunt Juid then the rider Is thrown or he Jumps off or Is picked up by j the pick-up men. From ten to twenty seconds Is all he Is allowed to go and he is never allowed to go above forty-fire seconds even when In the finals for the championship. As the bermuda Is tried out the bucking list Is made up. Such buckers as Angel, Long Tom, Hot Foot, Rambling Sam and so on. get the worst of It In the try-outs. They are ridden every day, scratched Just enough to make them mean and take the soreness out of their muscles. The cowboys who do this try-out work are paid good money for It Is worth .something to get on Long Tom every day when you know that he Is going to throw you. But they are not allowed to enter into the bucking contest, for riding the horses so many times they learn the tricks and stei and thereby have an advantage over the cowboy who mounts them for the first time. The bucking list is then made up and the horses picked for each of the three days and Friday forenoon for there are always so many contestants eager to ride that time will not permit them the children of this great separated I ng n a class all by himself, being tribes. Tomorrow thete will be none j touted as the man who rode Angel, left and round-ups as they are today j Long Tom, Whistling Annie. Hot Foot, will be a thing of the past for they Cyclone. Speed ball. Gavlota. Steam will go wHh the passing of the peo-I boat or Teddv Roosevelt. Just to show his disdain for money, although he may at the time be absolutely broke, he will not participate in a bucking contest where the list contains un- i known or mediocre buckers. An illustration of this was given In September of 191 J. when a certain city -put on a round-up with nothing more than two bunches of wild hors es. These they gave fancy names and advertised them as outlaws. Bat when the show was over the records show ed that out of eighty rides only three men were thrown. You couldn't get a real rider to admit that he was a contestant In that round-up. The cowboy would rather go broke all summer than win a thousand dollar purse on a horse that a girl could ride. In. his steer roping he is Just as particular. He must have his own roping horse, even If he has to ship it all the way from the ranch in Ari xona where he happens to be work- ple who make them. Today they breath the spirit of the old wes-t, to morrow the Imitation of this spirit will be commercialized, capitalized and perfected Into a beautiful theatri cal shadow of what it once was. People unacquainted with the pe culiarities of these children and watching a round-up from the grand stand or bleachers hastily Jump at the conclusion that the thing Is automat ic and reproduces Itself annually like a blooming flower. Entire communis ties have become diazzled and blinded by the beauty of the finished Round up and hastily dashed into the vortex only to find themselves flung high and dry on the rocks of financial disas ter. While in 1913 there were Just fifty two round-ups, rodeos, border days and frontier days produced in the Pa cific northwest and Canada there were less than half a dozen financial successes. And the reason for this is. not that the shows are not good, but that the management or produc ing management rather Is poor. So to get at the secret of the business one must get behind the scenes at one of the big successes like the Pendleton Round-up or Cheyenne Frontier Days. Both are established, unqualified suc cesses. But from a commercial basis the Pendleton Round-up is perhaps the most representative. It being own ed by the municipality of Pendleton, staged anl produced by a volunteer as sociation without pay or any hope of reward other than the glory which at taches of being one of the eleven re sponsible for the Round-up. Its suc cess has been the most phenomenal of any festival of its kind ever given and it is strictly a non-commercial enterprise. From a beginning in 1)10 with an attendance of about eight thousand people It had become so widely known in 1913 that more than seventy-five thousand people paid ad mission at its gates, and Its total at tendance was twice that of any other two round-ups given. Its slogan of' "Let r buck." is recognized wherever the English language is spoken. The success of the Pendleton Round-up has been the Incentive to the fifty-two ether cities, towns and communities of the northwest to try their luck at tfc btittina Its property holdings are valued at one hundred thousand dollars and its string of bucking hors es alone is worth twenty-five thou sand. IU-hlnd The Scene. And now to get behind the scene ar.d discover this secret. While there are a thousand and more 'petty little details and things going to make up the success of the Round-up this ar ticle, will deal only with the few most Important ones. First, then, you mut have bucking horses. Not the ordi nary bucking horses who will hop-nklp-and-Jump all over a forty acre field, but the outlaw who will throw his rider in less than thirty seconds or not at alL Horses of this class are very, very scarce and they easily bring one thousand dollars In the round-up market. There Is not a I ucklng horse In the entire northwest with any sort of a good buck In him but has been seen and worked out by the livestock director of the Pendleton Hound-up or one of his wranglers, thi same being termed scouts in the baseball world. In the livestock di rector's card Index Is listed every horse in the bucking business, the kind of a bucker he Is, the number of rides, the number cf riders thrown, Mul the kind and das of rider up. For Instance, take the famous "Angel" horse, lie 1 an outlaw pure and simple. He was caught up with a bunch In the Iw-e country. He threw every cowboy working for the I-Z out fit. By this time a Hound-up wrang ler was on hand. He reported favor ably on the horse and another wrang ler was sent to check up, The second report was favorable. Then went the livestock director himself all the way to the I-Z country. When he got there he couldn't find a man who would attempt to ride the outlaw. He nut buck for the Hound-up rider. Tli horse was accepted but In order t get him the owner Instated that the livestock director buy the entire bunch. The "Angel" horse became -tly wu-th a thousand dollars and out of this bunch Has discovered the horse Isee and Bear Cat, two first 'Um buckers. Hound-up would be getting off cheap j to ride in the afternoon alone, the sur by just handing you five hundred dol lars to sort of pay you for your time lost What do you pay, is that en ough?" "Now see here. Sam," Bill replies, thinking of the thousand dollars he had Intended to sue the management for. "that's sure generous but it was all my own fault. I ought to knowed better'n to rake that haws Ondlan, 'cause he just nacherlly beat me to it He was some too quick for me and I didn't calculate the distance correct ly. I sure am to blame an' no other person. Serves me right, too. I ain't kicking, but I was thinking that if you all would pay that hosplstal bill and square up with the sheepshearer who patched me up and maybe buy me a new pair o' boots, 'cause they slit that right one slick down from the top where the ankle was swelled, 'an they was fine boots too, why I'd Jest call it square and feel highly grateful to wou all during all my borned days." You settle on that basis and Bill goes away declaring that you are the finest bunch of people he ever did business with. Had you approached him on the other tack Bill would never have set- Ing at the time or bring it over land, tied for anything less than a thous He will take nobody's word as to the , ar.d dollars in money, a new pair of qualities of a roping horse except his ! boots, a new suit of clothes, a horse and a railroad ticket home, although he couldn't possibly have made, use of both of them. The probabilities are own. And he is always suspicious. He sleeps in the stable with that horse to see that no one comes any "high- life" on him and he carries his rope i Bill would have failed to get what he continually on his arm. sleeping with it under his pillow. .He is afraid some one will cut the strands and when he has the steer ready for a bust his rope will break, putting him out of I wanted but you would have failed to get what you wanted and must have. Bill's everlasting, undying and freely- given support and admiration. Two months before the date of the running. To make him satisfied i the opening of the Round-up the llve- the management must give him every j opportunity to protect his horse and rope. And he is right, too. for the intelligence of the roping horse is wonderful. Take the old Charley horse belonging to Ed McCarty of Cheyenne. He is now about fourteen or fifteen years old, too old for con test work, but McCarty ships the old stock manager has raked the north west with a fine tooth comb for out laws and buckers with a reputation. The bermude is brought in from the winter ranges and from six weeks to two months before the show begins these buckers are "tried out" Each horse is ridden once the first week. The second week he is ridden twice fellow along with his other horses and after that as often as good Judg plus Is worked off on Friday morn ing. The trick and fancy ropers and riders are hired under contract, draw ing all the way from ten to five hun dred dollars a day, according to their ability and reputation. This is not be cause these people are so very scarce but rather because they are too nu merous. Either a trick or fancy riding or roping contest open to the world as the main events of the Round-up are, is the slowest thing on the face of the earth. And to work either one of these contests off to a finish at the Round-up would re quire about two hours each day. The ordinary Round-up audience will stand for fifteen minutes of this stuff but no more. Consequently the director of non-competitive events hires his fancy ropers and riders outright, gives them all an equal show In front of the grand stand, limits the whole thing to ten minutes and everybody is satisfied. Contrary to the general Impression the director of non-competitive events also has charge of the cowgirls' buck ing contest. This, too, Is one of the big secrets you learn when watch ing the Round-up from behind the scenes. Every girl that rides at the Round-up Is paid about five hundred dollars for the three days and very, very often she will not mount more than once. ' In addition to the pay wnicn sne receives sne also has a chance to win the purse and the prize saddle, for their contest, so far as the contest part is concerned. Is carried on under the same rules and con ditions as the cowboys' bucking con test. There are several reasons why the girl riders are paid whether they win or not, but the two principal ones are very queer. While the audience goes wild with delight at seeing a cowboy thrown they get up and leave if a girl happens to be dumped from a pitching cayuse. And girl riders are divided into two classes, the "slick" and "hobble" riders, and they "Seal Brand The Coffee of Universal Appeal i (Continued on page 13 ) In the camp- the pot of gold at the end of the long trail because of its rich, full, satisfying strength CHASE & SANBORN'S SEAL BRAND COFFEE In 1 and 2 pound cans. Never in bulk. Ground, Unground or Fulverued. This coffee is sold with the understanding that if the customer is not satisfied after using 2 lb. can we will gladfy refund his money. Sold by Reliable Grocers Everywhere Gray Bros. Groc. Co. 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