Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...AUSTIN'S RODEO." Tex Austin, it appears, is the champion manager of cowboy championships. "He always pays 100 cents on the dollar. He plays no favorites. No one ever bought, stole or ran away with a title at one of Tex Austin's contests." So reads his literature-which has been deposited by the mailman in most of the ranch post boxes of the West...
Biggest and Best Rodeo - The West a-Hootin' August and New York, we understand, will see one of the biggest and best exhibitions of a certain Americant art that has been displayed so far-an art as completely and typically American as the first Olympic Games were Greek. We refer to bull-dogging, bronco-busting, roping et al. The Frontier may have passed but the sports of the Frontier survive. Sans six-guns, perhaps; sans Deadwood Dick's Last Chance Saloon and a picturesque if sanguinary revolver-practice; but with the spirit of that Frontier alive...
Here is something American to the core-a thing most natively American in its every attribute, sprung like the border ballads from an aspect of American life now almost completely gone, preserved for the amazement of an age well nigh as different from the age that produced the rodeo as the Court of George V is from the court of Henry VIII...
...sleeping female servants. . . Eventually I climbed to the roof of a one-story wing of the palace, smashed a skylight, dropped through." Jim Johnson, Mayor of Shelby, Mont.: "The Common Council, in session, voted unanimously to invite the Prince of Wales to the Dempsey-Gibbons fight and the rodeo, July 4. Said the telegram in part: 'These are events of red-blooded sport and the invitation is extended to a red-blooded sportsman.'" Manuel Herrick, former Representative from Oklahoma: " I entered suit in the Supreme Court of D. C. for breach of promise against Miss Ethelyn Chrane...
...Messrs. Shubert have withdrawn these statements, as they found them to be unwarranted." Dignified-eh? Next fall old London will have a chance to see the cowboys 'n wild Indians. Captain Bertram Mills, owner of Olympia Circus there and a well-known whip, witnessed the first American rodeo of the year in Wichita, Kans., and was so impressed by the show possibilities of bulldogging, lariat-throwing, bucking bronchos, etc., that he intends to stage a real American rodeo at Olympia Circus in the autumn...