Word: broncs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile Hollywood, where all the television westerns are filmed, had begun to jump like a bronc with a belly full of bedsprings. Every rent-out ranch within a hundred miles was overrun with milling steers, yipping dudes and grinding cameras. The riding academies were booked solid, and the shooting instructors were taking in more money than the psychoanalysts. Horses were making more than people-up to $100 a day, while the average extra was getting $22.05. And the Hollywood hills were alive with "Method Cowboys" who would display their diplomas from the Actors' Studio at the drop...
...around cowboy for the second time, and he earned $43,381. This season, injuries have slowed him down. He may earn a little less money, but when the season ends this week in Harrisburg. Pa. he should be at the top of the lists once more in bareback bronc and bull riding...
...accidents, Jim Shoulders has had to do precious little scuffling. Riding the suicide circuit from New York to California, hitting all the dusty little cow towns in between, he has come to know most of the rodeo stock well. Usually he knows which bronc will give him a good, fishtailing ride; which bull will come out of the chute bucking, or which will plunge several feet and then start spinning. Most of the time he knows the safest side for dismounting when the horn sounds the end of the ride...
...Jubal runs away, until he finds Ernest Borgnine, the friendly ranchowner who looks like a Bronx butcher. After some preliminary bronc-busting, Borgnine gets to like Jubal (Glenn Ford)--"I trust you, Jubal"--and the trouble begins. It seems that Borgnine's wife, some starlet with a wavering English accent, also thinks she'd like to trust Jubal...
Linderman, who was born in Bridger, Mont., won his cowboy championship title by spending eleven months or so last year on a 75,000-mile rodeo-circuit tour and winning more prize money ($33,674) than any other rodeo man in the combined events: saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback riding and calf roping. The San Antonio rodeo was Linderman's fifth of the young 1954 season, after performances at Denver, Fort Worth, Houston and El Paso. This week he pushes to Baton Rouge. His prize money for the year so far: more than...