Word: furlong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talk illustrated by colored slides and by moving pictures. Mr. Charles Wellington Furlong, last night at the Union, gave his large and enthusiastic audience a vivid account of the Old West, epitomized in all its glamour at the Round-up at Pendleton, Oregon...
...these annual shows come 70,000 people, cowboys and Indians from the surrounding counties and states, and here are celebrated the immemorial sports of the West--horse racing, steer roping, Maverick races, broncho busting, and many others that require skill and strength. The stage coach race, established as Mr. Furlong said, before the "Safety First" idea, is another exciting and neck-breaking event...
...Furlong showed many pictures and told many stories of famous horses and buckaroos. There was Sundown Jackson, a full-blooded Indian, who at the age of fifty won the world's rough riding championship by sticking to a fierce "outlaw" horse, "raking" him and "fanning" him at every buck, and finally riding him "out", after he had been scraped against several fences, carried through others, and carried round, and round the arena. Then there was a cowboy, the best rider in the West, who because he was a Pendleton boy had to "ride out" four of the worst horses...
...Furlong turned his attention to the West of this country, where he visited several Indian tribes and a year later in 1914 won the world's rough-riding championship by riding the famous bucking bull, "Sharkey". That same year he crossed the Atlantic in a 22-ton schooner and proceeded to the north and west coasts of Africa where he explored many islands...
During the war Mr. Furlong served at first in the cavalry, but later was assigned to the military intelligence section. In addition to being an extensive contributor to magazines Mr. Furlong has won recognition as the author of several books on travel and adventure