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
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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
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