OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS 



Thus the fundamental and basic asset of the show 

 was its psychological verity. But its success could 

 not possibly be assured, unless there was a spirit and 

 community interest back of it. So its organizers 

 wisely aimed to make everybody feel himself a part of 

 the show. This spirit exists in both grandstand and 

 bleachers and in town as well, and is contagious to both 

 the contestants and visitors. Everybody in Pendleton 

 begins a week before the Round-Up to bring in their 

 saddle horses from the ranges and don their ranch 

 clothes to swell the mounted contingent, both in the 

 parade and in the great spectacle of the arena. 



And here are the two feature results — the feeling of 

 community spirit in townsman and visitor, and particu- 

 larly the fact that the cowboy and Indian consider the 

 celebration as their own : the spectators are incidental, 

 they do it mostly for their own satisfaction. And if 

 the future Round-Up committees and the people of 

 Pendleton hold fast to these guiding principles which 

 the primal organizers and time have proved out, the 

 Round-Up and its spirit will endure, as long as there is 

 a bad horse to ride and a cowboy to ride it, a steer to 

 be roped and a "boy" to rope it, or an Indian with a 

 war-bonnet and a squaw to make it. 



The "Round-Up" means the gathering together of 

 the men, women — yes, and animals too — of the ranges 

 for a three-days' festival of cowboy sports and pas- 

 times. It is to that section of the West what the county 

 fair is to certain sections of the East, but with this dif- 

 ference : the seventy thousand people who journey to 

 the little city of Pendleton, with its seven thousand 

 population, are drawn from all quarters of the United 

 States, Canada, and Mexico, and even from across the 

 oceans. 



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