Word: ranched
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Bonanza may no longer be filling prime time on TV, but the spirit of the Ponderosa gallops on. Big Ben Cartwright rode into Washington last week to lobby for some of the constituents of Ponderosa ranch: horses. Along with Papa Charcoal, the American Horse Protection Association's mascot, Actor Lome Greene gave a press conference opposite the White House, asking for legislation to curb the cruelties inflicted on horses in the U.S. Greene, who has his own ranch in California's San Fernando Valley, has joined the board of the A.H.P.A. Said one fan who had gathered round...
While his father wrestles with a bearish economy from the White House, Steve Ford, 18, plans to wrangle with more manageable stock on a Utah ranch. Postponing his freshman term at Duke University, the publicity-shy son of the President will seek out the private life of a ranch hand. Despite Ford's detour from Duke, his classmates at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., apparently have no doubts about his future. He and Coed Janice Hodges were voted "most likely to succeed" by then" fellow seniors, and posed for the appropriate yearbook picture, costumed as Bonnie...
...surprisingly mild individual for a man who makes his living as a champion steer wrestler and calf roper. Unlike the ornery, untamed cowboys of rodeo lore, he does not brawl his way from one prairie town to the next. His rodeo skills were honed not on a hardscrabble ranch but on a college campus. Even so, almost every time Ferguson grabs a rampant 800-lb. steer by the horns to "bulldog" it to the turf, or smoothly lassoes a speeding calf, he places in the money. So far this year he has already earned more than $50,000, which makes...
...earnings, Ferguson is typical of a new breed of cowboy that is rapidly transforming the rodeo from a rowdy range spectacle to a disciplined, businesslike sport. Fully one-third of the 3,000-member Rodeo Cowboys Association today have attended college, and only half have ever worked on a ranch-rodeo's traditional training ground. For them the path upward winds through "Little Britches" (the cowboy's equivalent of the Little League), high school competition and eventually college teams.*Competitors put up with the serious training regimen in return for the cash prizes available on the rodeo circuit...
...rodeo is still rock-hard with flinty characters. Wick Peth, 44, could be relaxing at his ranch in Bow, Wash.; instead, he runs around rodeo arenas as a bullfighter trying to keep marauding horned brahmas from impaling riders who have toppled in their path. Earlier this year, Peth was gored in the leg and ripped both Achilles' tendons; three weeks later he was back in action. Malcolm Baldrige, 51, is more fanatical than flinty. Chairman of the diversified Scovill Manufacturing Co. in non-cowboy Waterbury, Conn., Baldrige takes every chance he can get to join the tour and rope...