CORRAL DUST 



However, Luke Cayapoo, Tom Shelal, Mox-mox, 

 and J. White Plume have also taken second champion- 

 ship places, and Lucien Williams, Bud Reed, Gilbert 

 Minthorn and Dave Shippentower, who have won 

 third places, have all of them given the Burkes and 

 Farrows a hot run for their money. 



Most of these riders go in for the other major events 

 — the buckaroos in particular are excellent ropers and 

 nervy bulldoggers. Minthorn enters his team of four 

 horses which he drives in the stagecoach races. Then 

 there is Burgess, the Oklahoma Indian, who competes 

 in a number of events. 



That splendid blue and white tepee sending a blue 

 smoke against distant golden hills, is Sundown's. 

 Jackson Sundown is a full-blooded Nez Perce, a superb 

 type of his race. Not only his remarkable riding, but 

 his splendid quality of mind and character have made 

 him a prime favorite with all. Physically he is a sight 

 for the gods with his erect carriage and lithe, agile 

 body, which still bears the scars of three bullet wounds 

 in fights against the whites in the long ago now, under 

 his intrepid and famous uncle, Chief Joseph. Little 

 wonder A. Phimister Proctor, the noted sculptor, se- 

 lected him as nearest to his ideal type of the American 

 Indian, and camped for six weeks on Sundown's land 

 near Culdesac, Idaho, while Sundown posed daily for 

 Proctor's "The Indian Pursuing a Buffalo." 



The beautiful bead-embroidered buckskin- fringed 

 gauntlets, solid beaded with decorative roses on a white 

 background which he proudly shows us, were made by 

 his wife of whom he is very fond. "Hi-yu-skookum 

 gloves, (very good gloves) Sundown." Although 

 Sundown speaks some English, he will understand our 

 jargon, for the Nez Perce and Umatilla are linguis- 



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