Word: rodeoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rodeo which will end its two-week run Sunday at the Boston Garden, relatively little time is spent in actual competitions. In each of the five events, there are not more than ten entrants, all of whom participate in machine-gun fashion, seemingly having been instructed to take a "no-time" rather than hold up the show...
What happens when the rodeo hits Boston? Not much, if one is interested in good rodeo. In the East, rodeo becomes a spectacle, not a sport. In the West, where rodeo is close to its roots, rodeo for its own sake is highly respected. In many communities the rodeo is the big social and cultural event of the year. Everybody dons their Western apparel (in the bigger Western cities people are fined and jailed for not doing so) and goes to the rodeo. Being head of the citizen's rodeo committee is one of the most highly honored civic positions...
Instead of the usual lengthy events, the time is filled by entertainers. A paunchy, middle-aged Gene Autry, who owns a major share of the rodeo, sings and announces that if he didn't live in California, he'd live in Boston. A younger Annie Oakley thinks equally well of our fair city. Also present are the Riders of the Purple Sage who are still drifting along the tumbling tumbleweed searching for some cool, cool water. There is also a square dance on horseback, trick riding, and two girls doing trick roping in semi-Bikini type costumes. These interludes...
Many of the cowboys made good this summer for the first time, then decided to come East this fall to see the country and try their luck. A typical example is Jay T. Smith of Iota, Idaho, who won the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo. Smith, like most of the others, has paid out more in expenses than he has won. Only about fifty of the nation's 3,000 rodeo cowboys earn more than $10,000 annually of the $3,000,000 of- fered in prizes. No cowboy is paid; in fact each has to pay to compete for prize...
...Rodeo has come quite a ways since its founding...