Word: rodeoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sole claim to celebrate her Centennial. San Antonio, Goliad, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Houston, all had claims, as sites of critical events in the year 1836 (see p. 13). So the Centennial arrangers granted every city and village a right to its own celebration, raised practically every local rodeo, county fair, flower show, milk festival, fiddlers' reunion to the rank of a Centennial observance...
...Stetson hats to distinguished guests, prides itself on being a thoroughgoing Western cow town. Boasting itself the Southwest's No. 1 grain and livestock market, Fort Worth likes the virile stench of its stockyards, hates cultured Dallas, of late years has found the excitement of its annual rodeo surpassed by the excitement of watching its fast, rangy Texas Christian University football team play Dallas' fast, rangy Southern Methodists...
Billed as the "world championship.'' Colonel William T. Johnson's rodeo which opened last week in Manhattan for the first of five stands in its annual circuit is actually nothing of the sort. The nearest approach to championships in calf-roping, bulldogging, bronco-riding and the rest of the spectacular exhibitions that go to make up a rodeo are the point scores compiled by the Rodeo Association of America (of which the Johnson rodeo is not a member) from some 50 Western rodeos throughout the year. Nonetheless, because the Johnson show enables them to stare...
Last week, 200 rodeo performers-men and women who average $2,000 a year in prize money, out of which they pay their own expenses, entry fees and hospital bills -were on hand for the opening in Madison Square Garden. New features: a Mexican band; a corral full of Canadian bucking horses freshly picked by Colonel Johnson's bronco scout, Mike Hastings; Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen of Alhambra, Calif., whose best trick consists of making a shoe knock a paper bag off the head of an assistant named George on its way to falling for a ringer...
Tent City. The carnival is not Iowan; the auto racers and rodeo folk are not Iowan; the best horseshoe pitcher is not Iowan; the livestock is not all Iowan. But the people who go to the Fair are Iowa itself, in all its friendliness, power, vulgarity and genius. And the place to see them best is in the Tent City, a unique colony pitched in a rolling, wooded 100-acre plot adjoining the Fair Grounds. These visitors, 10,000 strong, appear at the Fair year after year, are its backbone. They bring their own tents and by some informal right...