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...main line from Cheyenne to Denver, where the cow-country meets the mountains, lies the brisk Colorado city of Greeley. Into Greeley with a flivver-pulled trailer in the fall of 1930 steamed one Elzy Alumbaugh ("Buzz") Hoover, 28, husky, square-cut, leather-lunged, with a diploma from Fred Reppart's School of Auctioneering, a wife, two children and $10. He found a place to park in Greeley's junky fringe, pushed his gallon hat back off his forehead, and got down to business...
...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...
Clarence June, Michigan swamp farmer, had a wife, ten children, a cow, and a house (one-room). But somehow life had begun to pall on him. His friend, George Davis, Flint factory worker, with a wife and four small daughters, was bored...
...they decided on a swap: for George's wife and daughters, George could have Clarence's wife, seven of the June children, and the cow. Their wives agreed, and the swap was made. They lived that way with less boredom, for three months...
Along the stonewalls and the dusk The cow-paths come up very steep, The cowbells mingle with the bells That ring on reefs out on the deep...