Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EMPIRE (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Keir Dullea portrays a former rodeo rider who has become an embittered cripple. Color...
...that reason the Harvard volunteers went to reservations where they were invited by tribal councils and took part in programs the tribal councils sponsored. Camp Unitah, for example, has been operated by the Ute Tribal Council five years. In North Dakota, where two students taught rodeo skills to young Indian "cowboys," they worked as part of a recreation program sponsored by the affiliated tribes of Fort Berthold. At the White Mountain (Montana) reservation of the Apache, a Harvard volunteer joined a group of Indians in clearing camp sites, building cabins, and marking trails for a recreation park. Two 'Cliffies helped...
...smooth pattern of action is broken, man, horse, steer-or all three -can be crippled or killed. To rodeo men, the poorest form of all is called the "houlihan," when a bulldogger illegally knocks the steer down as he jumps from his horse and the dazed animal somersaults on top of him. In a "dog fall," the steer collapses with its legs tucked under its body, then has to be raised and thrown again. The "rubberneck steer" can let its head be twisted 180° or more, so that it is almost impossible to throw. Some steers veer under...
...Bynum knows all these dangers (he has suffered a broken leg, a broken wrist, and "a few horns in the gut"), but he carefully balances caution against the daring needed to win. "I know they're always going to have a rodeo next week," he smiles. "I'm not going to do anything to get myself hurt." Alabama-born, Big Jim has been bull-dogging almost 20 years, now grows cotton on a farm near Dallas. He tends it carefully in good years and leaves it readily when the sun-withered crop is poor. "They say they...
...Bulldogging remains the popular layman's term, but modern rodeo cowboys prefer to call it steer wrestling; it is one of five standard events of the professional rodeo. Others: calf roping, bull riding, bareback riding, and saddle bronc riding...