WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 149
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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
Riders Hope to Recapture Bit
OfOldWest on LaborDayTrip
Rimrockers Join in Celebration
Drill Team Halts for Pose
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Scrapbook photographs show dozens of scenes like this, in which members and mounts carrying
the colors parade to music and admiring crowds' applause. Here, the club participates in festivities at
Bend airport which honored a flying group.
Rim Rock Group
Has Busy Year
' By Lois Snyder
The creak of leather and the
clop of hooves; the smell of fry
ing bacon, and the sound of
laughter out-of-doors all of that,
plus the drama and color of the
old west when men rode horses
from need, will be recaptured
Labor day week end when Bend's
Rim Rock Riders once more take
off. to open country for their an
nual autumn excursion.
This, they have done each year
for a long time. But in addition,
their history has been one of
moonlight rides and pie socia
bles; barn dances -and wiener
roasts ; buckaroo Breakfasts,
county fairs, rodeos, parades,
basket socials, picnics, lectures,
field days, cattle brandings, camp
fire fests and winter sleighing.
In other words they've had
fun.
Still, sometimes, one of the
charter members said, it sort of
seems as though their very best
times lie back in the past; back
beyond the coming of the barbed
wire fences. '
Old Davs Recalled
Wistfully,- Mrs. Ken C Gulick
told of bygone days when riders
could go everywhere, because the
widFopen spaces were just that.
"Now,'' she pointed out, "they're
still wide; but they aren't open."
Many times, nowodays, the
horse and rider can't get through
to the beauty spots they seek
because now such places lie be
hind a rancher's fence, visited
now only by jackrabbits and
whitefaces. .
The club has partly solved that
. situation by loading horses on
trucks, and taking them back to
places not yet invaded by barbed-!
wire ana seven iooi juniper posts,
for their larger outings.
That's what members will do
Labor day.' Meals, as usual, will
be in the open, perhaps from a
chuck wagon. Days will see long,
lazy rides; nights will hold camp
fires, stunts, tales.
And it's a safe bet there'll be
cowboy songs drifting out be
yond the circle of the firelight
songs about empty saddles in the
old corral; gold-mines in the sky;
the wheel of the wagon that's
broken, and the cowboy their
grandparents immortalized be
cause when he died, headed for
the Oregon country, he begged
so hard not to be buried on the
lone prairie.
Camp In Mountains
Last Labor day, nearly 100
grownups and children camped
at Todd lake meadows. Other ex
cursions have, been to Lava is
land, Shevlin park, Upper Shev
lin meadows, Tumalo meadows,
and into the Eastern Cascades,
with many shorter trips to near
by camping spots.
During the war, like good
Americans, the Rim Rock Riders
forsook pleasure for war work.
Saddles were waxed and hung
away for the duration; saddle
blankets were tucked into chests
with mothballs, and the club dis
banded. Stable yards were spaded
and put Into victory gardens, and
mounts were sold in some cases.
But after the war, it was only
a short time before spring weath
er spoke to club members, and
reorganization was soon under
way. '
One of the worlh-whlle proj
ects of Kim Uock Klilcis was the
bringing of Makanda, proven stal
lion, to Bend in the spring of
'45. Makanda's colts arc ncaring
maturity now, and owners are
very proud. Those. colts are going
to be capable of great speed and
endurance, they prophesy; and
their saddle-horse build' is so
nearly ideal that Makanda's mis
horse stock Is shown now to be
well fulfilled.
Kept In Bend
Makanda was stabled in the
Brooks-Scanlon bam. There, he
got the best in food and care.
Assigned here by Col. F. W. Noes-
ter of the army quartermaster
corps, Makanda was one of many
stallions placed by the Western
Remount headquarters ol Po
mona. Calif., . in communities
where better riding stock was de
sired.
N. R. Gilbert, H. C. Terwllliger
and Ken C. Gulick, officers of the
club at that time, are credited
with bringing the 16-year-old suc
cessful sire to Deschutes county.
His visit lasted two years.
Another remembered event is
a historic saddle show. One ex
hibit was a- saddle 50 years old.
property of the late Frank Bogue
ofiiapm'e. Made by a saddler
named Boone, it was first used
by Bogue when he worked for
Bill Brown running wild horses
on the famed ranch near Glass
butte, east of Bend.
Saddle Exhibited
A second bit of old Oregon
rangeland days was a saddle ex
hibited by Allie Taylor. Every
Inch a lady, that saddle plush-
padded, it was genteel in its
insistence that gentlewomen of
tender upbringing should always
ride sideways.
There are innumerable Sisters
rodeos for discussion, but in par
ticular there Is the Sisters rodeo
at which a Rim Rock Rider mem
ber. Helen Filey, presided as
queen. With Trlxie as her mount.
Miss Filey was chosen from a
field of five candidates on the
basis of superior horsemanship.
That was in 1944. In 1946. Don
na Gulick, 16, covered herself
with glory by being elected queen
of Deschutes county fair. And in
1947, Crooked River roundup had
Peggy Terwilligar as the wom
an so honored.
There was another Sisters ro
deo in which Rim Rockers won
the club relay, in a triumph over
the Saddle club of Redmond,
their perennial rivals In a friend
ly fashion. In that event, Lyle
Wood rode three horses a fourth
mile each; first, Allapo, owned by
Harry Terwilligar; then Dock,
owned by Ken Gulick, and finally
Salarko. owned by Ethel Elliott.
Breakfasts Recalled
Mouth-watering remembrances,
the thoughts of buckaroo break
fasts at the Dean Hollinshead
ranch east of Bend might be
termed. There, riders viewed
their hosts' fine horses; joined
in games, hurdles, races while
spectators watched from the shad.
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Whlte-shlrted, wearing matching ties and tints, this nifty trio shows
Frank Filey, Lorraine Bowns, and Ted Hollidny, at a filers' break
fast given at Bend airport. A plane shows in the background.
ows of tall pines. To one such
event, A. L. O. Schueler and
Lloyd Maglll came In a one-horse
shay. .
Moonlight rides and wiener
roasts . . . uprlver five miles,
where ravenous appetites have
always made wiener supplies
seem much too short . . . encoun
ters with porcupines, strangest of
all creatures by wan light o'
moon. To these events, as many
as 50 have gane.
Then there have been the coun
ty fairs. Color-bearers Harry Ter
willigar, Les Dodson and Frank
Filey have been among those who
have headed their companions to
parade band music. Always the
applause Is loud and long as the
Rim Rock Riders pass.
Fighting Men Guests
Fighting men seven from their
station atop Pilot butte and three
from Redmond air field shared
the club's Christmas party and
banquet in 1944. On another occa
sion, breakfast was served a
large group of fliers and wives
at the airport.
Rim Rock Riders are willing to
work, too. Learning that Sumner
Houston had Insufficient labor
and needed help in a coming
branding, members postponed a
jaunt to Skyliners lodge and in
stead went to Mllllcan one time.
With a present membership of
86, Frank Filey Is president;
James VanHuffel, vice-president;
Otto Nicholas, second vice-president,
and Lorraine Bowns, secretary-treasurer.
When they tire of talking of
old times, the Rim Rock Riders
can. i discuss their horses, past
present. "Now, take Lucky, own
ed by Lps Dodson. There was a
horse!" the conversation goes. Or,
"That awful Jim I had. A more
cussed nag never threw a shoe!"
Own Prized Horses
Today, as far as Bud and Mary
Schueler are concerned, their own
mares. Honey and Jean, are tops.
But the Lloyd Magllls listen only
politely, for they are sure their
sorrels, Doc Bradley and Jean,
are better mounts.
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