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...Montana since the age of 15, a son of the saddle who knew most of his state from the Tetons to the Yellowstone, most of the cowmen from Great Falls to Miles City, most of the dodges of calves at branding time, steers on the range, cayuses at a rodeo. He modeled and painted the "puncher's" life so well that in 1925 the Montana Board of Education awarded him an honorary...
...South American press had dubbed "Don Quixote de la Mancha," had to blanket the animals heavily to save them from vampire bats). He proposed passing through Texas, Kentucky, the Chicago stockyards, before exhibiting himself on Broadway. His purpose: to demonstrate the endurance of criollos, to promote an inter-continental rodeo between U. S. cowboys and Patagonian gauchos...
John M. Parker Jr. son of the onetime Governor of Louisiana, who won the National Tarpon Rodeo at Pass Christian, Miss., with a 6 ft. 3 in.. 108-lb. catch...
...told that "Ma" Ferguson would receive exactly 453,884 votes; Dan Moody exactly 307,887; and Lynch Davidson about 63,000. Moody men guffawed. Lynch Davidson growled about "political liars." Jim Ferguson hitched up his pants and hustled on to wind up his free-and-easy wife-boosting rodeo...
...seat in a walk, amble, trot, canter, gallop or jump, even in the English saddle with its low pommel and cantle. In the McClellan saddle of the U. S. Army or the cowboy saddle of the ranches, she will have even a more secure seat, as can testify famed Rodeo Rider "Texas" Guinan, now boisterous hostess of a Manhattan supper club.† She never found anything exotic or treacherous in a man's saddle, and certainly would never weary her pony with the heavier sidesaddle...