Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectacle combines the glitter and grace of an ice show, the hell-for-leather horsemanship of a rodeo, the martial pageantry of a Veterans Day parade, and the breath-stopping violence of the St. Valentine's Day massacre. The men are ruggedly masculine, and the girls are worth bringing binoculars...
Death Revealed. Trigger, 33, Roy Rogers' original palomino stallion, whose 65 hard-learned tricks won him star billing in 86 movies, a feat unmatched by his successor, Trigger Jr., 28, who does 45 stunts, but never went beyond rodeo appearances and television shows; of old age; last July; at Hidden Valley, Calif. Rogers says he withheld the announcement because he could not bear to break the news to the horse's devoted fans, who still write to "Trigger, U.S.A." "I just couldn't see covering him up," says Roy, and so Trigger has been stuffed, to stand...
Like the professional golfer, the ro deo cowboy is a nomad of sport - wan dering from town to town, plying his trade in a succession of arenas, paying his own way and earning only what he is good enough to win. In ten years on the bigtime rodeo circuit, driving 70,-000 miles a year, sleeping in trailers and nursing an ulcer, New Mexico's Glen Franklin, 29, has won more "go-rounds" and money ($152,481) than most. Until last week, though, one prize had always eluded him: the silver and gold belt buckle and embossed saddle that...
...rodeo's five events (others: steer wrestling, bull riding, saddle and bareback bronc riding), calf roping is the most delicate and difficult. The "calves" are mean, 300-lb. Branguses that can smash a man's ribs or knock out half his teeth with one kick. On horseback, the roper must run down and lasso the charging calf-then leap from his horse, wrestle the infuriated animal onto its side, loop three of its legs together with a "pigging string" and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" knot. The race is against time (experts...
Windmill to Victory. From that point on, though, the contest is strictly man against beast. Last week, at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Franklin gave a superb demonstration of his skills. On his seventh "go-round," Glen lost precious seconds when he got off to a slow start, had to chase his calf halfway across the arena before he got within lariat range. Leaping out of the saddle, pigging string clutched in his teeth, he flung the calf to the ground and climbed astride, pinning the flailing legs between his own knees and "windmilling" the string around...