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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...
Matching his point score against the all-round cowpokes who also compete in calf roping, steer wrestling and saddle-bronc riding. Tompkins then outclassed the field for all-round honors with 30.935 points...
Also unique are the scenes of the West's Big Circuit rodeos. If Gene Autry jamborees in the Garden are the only rodeos you've seen, let RKO give you a seat on circuit shutes. And from there, watch the nation's brawniest, bronc-busting, bulldogging, Brahma bouncing riders bet their insurance policies against day money...
...five days of the championship competition, 73 competitors roped and rode through the full rodeo schedule. The rough & tumble rides (for eight-second "eternities") on the 1,500-lb. brutish Brahmans* were matched by other wild & woolly events: bareback bronc riding, bulldogging, wild cow milking...
...sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop (last week's: 34.8) than climb aboard a rodeo bronc...