Word: bronc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compete in the major-league circuit -the 100-odd rodeos sponsored by the R. A. A.-a cowboy must be a better-than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range gets around $40 a month-with "grub." A rodeo cowboy gets no salary at all. He pays his own traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost...
...notch cow pokes miss the Broadway roundup. With luck one man can win $4,000 at the Garden while his wife gets the Broadway permanent she has been dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But the girl who made even the cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf...
After the first week of the Garden show the leading contender for the national cowboy championship was shy, shambling 27-year-old Paul Carney of Galeton, Colo. With 6,178 points (one point for each dollar won during the season-except in bronc-riding events, which merit 1¼), Cowboy Carney was 1,598 points ahead of his nearest rival. Competing in three events (bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding, steer riding), he appeared to have the title in the palms of his tremendous hands...
...show of the three-year-old Club de Lasso. Founded by Serbian-born Artist Paul Coze Dabija, who is a student of Red Indian lore, the club meets weekly at the fashionable riding club Menage Olive. The members, dressed in authentic cowboy clothes ordered from Denver, Colo., learn bronc riding, Western music, plain & fancy roping. Only requirement for membership is sincere interest in Le Wild West, but since its quarters are limited, the club has a long waiting list. Members are all French except for Chief Oskomon. a bonafide Indian, and Pauline Le Breton, daughter of Rear Admiral David...
...Louis. Fortunately a traffic control officer saw him and radioed Pilot Connors to land. As the plane rolled to a stop, Krebs slid to the ground. He was still clutching the papers. His comment, as he handed them up for signature: "No cowboy ever rode a bronc harder...