s

Whether easing down
gently onto..a snuffy
range c = just
top rail”: “and: looki
- the rodeo - is exci iting.”
and spectator: interest in
the wild west ‘sport in-
creases every year.

plateaus and valleys, the

‘ire the rodeo sports.

Brom‘ sp through
nit staged in
ny communities. a

aretators
fessional . contestants
from. all over North:

¢ontinents. In between.
many: semi-
professional competitions
yat are held nearly
every weekend. —

Allthough the sport has
uudesrene major saddie-bronco
‘ears over the 200

aaoyet iia "paste con-
_tept remains: .a

be seit required by
oe aay tasks on/
ranch or epen range.

: But today itis far more.
It'is a competition bet- Where’

nn and himself. It

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A travel B. C. feature

Rodeo: Cattle country’ Ss sport

<Ysettin’ ine the chutes.

and his horse are
he geene, And so

separating.

and.

broncos

ween individuals, bet- team-roping and calf-
man and beast roping

1ere rulés usually favor
at and between

calls for stringent self-
discipline if the cowboy is
a's hurricane to keep coming back to

The rodeo — Spanish
for ‘roundup’ — began in
the southwest United.
States | in the mid 1700s
’. when "range
In B.C.’s interior belonging to ‘several -
owners were. brought
together for’ branding,
cagtrating

prestige was atten based
on its cowboys’ riding
roping skills and gered
owners vied-and
6: over which outfit.

pandas ascii
es eae cathe
invariably resulted in a.
number of half-wild, .
range-bred, mustangs
and other being rounded up as we i
and the cowboys’
satiable appetites for
:fresh mounts demandes . judg
that ;: these unbroken
horses be ridden,

Today's’ bareback’ ‘and

grew from this encessity~
_to bring a half-ton of bone
North and muscle under con-
trol. But modern rodeo

professional
orming riders, with . proven 4
ability to put space
-* between themselves and
the ‘contestant, - -

. brone-riding,
ave practical

applications in a cattle-
raising operation, some

steer-wrestling and
barrel-racing are strictly wi
arena competitions |
calling for perfect .co-
ordination of horse and

Bul ridfg, the s
tators’- outstan ing.
favorite is in a class by
itself.

It has no practical
applicat on and is highly

rged with danger. It
requires the finest

physical’ skill, strength
annd stamina ina

straight -. competition |
- between man and animal.
With . the -redeo's —

is'alse pro e
Bucking events’
aficionados-are no longer

- satisfied to see a rider.
‘simply ‘stay with his

horse or bull. They are as

discriminating as the _

es, rating and ap-

plauding the animale

second movements of a
roper’ s horse as lt holds a
at laase-tengih
without dumping
doesn't go unnoticed . Ww .
regular rodeo: watchers.
chunk of the prize
money. is what a rodeo
cowboy ‘wants most, but «

the crowd'’s.a preciation F

for a well-executed
performance has mich to

do with his staying at the —

sport.
Part of the. rodeo’s

rodeo events such as

aoe er

Lake round-up"

popularity may be in the 7

pathy fans develop
the contestants,
in contrast ‘to modern can predict
team sports’ highly-paid
and often temperamental mount will be.
professionals, the rodeo
cowboy faces each ‘event
completely on his own.

going hung

efforts along with the. — Ps
: riders’ timing and Shyth-

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he could Find himself -

obstreperous his next

But that is redeo — a
sport born on the frontier
and nurtured by men who
He “knows that any rated independence
mistake can put him out-. hight.
of the money or,’ Worse, .
into hosp ital: ree mee ,

There i is no sdlary..So.
if he fails to do his ‘best, ~ to watch.

‘- fhiscamespiritis alive
‘and well in B.C.’s rodeo
arenas —and it’s exciting

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