LET 'ER BUCK 



One may well ask why this little through-track town 

 draws such a stream of humanity on such a pilgrimage, 

 and holds them in a tense grip for three days and then 

 sends them away satisfied and enthusiastic. First and 

 foremost, the Round-Up is clean, pure sport, and 

 makes its appeal to the thousands who journey to Pen- 

 dleton every year to see those three primary attractions 

 of a frontier exhibition — the riding of a bucking horse, 

 the roping of a wild steer, and the bulldogging of a 

 Texas longhorn. 



Pendleton is in the heart of the range country and 

 was once an outfitting station on the Umatilla stage 

 route. Thus it is particularly adapted in location, set- 

 ting, and understanding, but perhaps preeminently 

 through its united effort, to give full measure and to 

 eliminate graft. In fact, although $1,500,000 has been 

 spent by the Round-Up attendance and $35,000 cleared 

 as profits, this community play of the West is not a 

 money-making scheme, staged as it is by a volunteer 

 organization and paying neither salaries nor dividends. 

 The directors are leading business men of the city, 

 many of whom are also ranchers, who serve without 

 pay ; all citizens cooperate with them, keep open-house, 

 and outdo themselves in extending hospitality to 

 visitors. 



Prior to the first Round-Up the committee had hard 

 work convincing the railroads that it was necessary to 

 plan ahead for accommodations, but after the Pendle- 

 tonians got behind it, the interest spread like a prairie 

 fire. There was such a demand that the railroads 

 themselves began to get uneasy and sent their agent a 

 number of times to Pendleton to advise them that the 

 crowd would be so great that Pendleton itself did not 

 know what they were up against. Didn't they? 



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