Word: rodeoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty li'l heifer? Who'll start it 25, 25, 25. . . ." They bid up to $97 a head; Buzz got $57,000 for the lot; the folks headed home-men, women and children-tired but tickled after a great day at Showman Buzz Hoover's combination rodeo, barbecue, songfest and livestock sale...
...when, the late, great Teddy Roosevelt pranced around the arena at Cheyenne's Frontier Days celebration, rodeos were a novelty even in his wild & woolly West. Today rodeos are a big-time U. S. sport. They annually attract twice as many spectators as auto racing or track. In Texas rodeos are chasing baseball off the sandlots. They have a governing organization (Rodeo Association of America), a cowboys' union (Turtle Association),* a major-league circuit and a national champion...
...compete in the major-league circuit -the 100-odd rodeos sponsored by the R. A. A.-a cowboy must be a better-than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range gets around $40 a month-with "grub." A rodeo cowboy gets no salary at all. He pays his own traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost...
...some 500 U. S. & Canadian cowboys have chosen rodeoing as a career-well aware that in an arena they may make more money in 60 seconds than they can make in a year on the range. Besides, they can buy fancy shirts and see the world. Last week, after nine months of jogging around-to Salinas, Pendleton, Cheyenne, Calgary and scores of lesser roundups-the cream of the professional cowpunchers gathered in the midst of Manhattan's skyscrapers for the climax of the season: the 14th annual World Series Rodeo in Madison Square Garden-26 days...
...Because the turtle is slow but sure," top-flight rodeo performers dubbed themselves Turtles when in 1936 they formed a union for collective bargaining with promoters...