SADDLE HIM OR BUST 



Here is one seat not taken at the Round-Up — it has been re- 

 served for you. It shows how they wrangle a bad one at 

 Pendleton. No more striking illustration of the entire art and 

 technique of wrangling could be obtained though composed with 

 the free brush of a painter — the balance of the composition, the 

 centralized interest, the action, the story element is all there. 



The bucker's dangerous forestriking made it too risky for men 

 on foot to handle his snubbing rope, so they brought the little 

 snubbing horse into play and with the rope have snubbed the 

 outlaw's nose close to the saddle horn, one man beneath the 

 horse's head handling the play or pay of the snubbing rope. With 

 a wild leap the fighting, biting demon endeavors to reach the 

 nervy wrangler in the saddle. He in turn, one foot out of stirrup, 

 as a precaution, seizes his antagonist in the most approved fashion 

 by an ear and is successfully tucking the blind under the further 

 haltei leather. The blinded man-fighter will now probably be 

 manageable until the saddle lying near him, is cinched up and 

 the rider ensconced in it. 



In the background on old Nellie, Herbert Thompson, assistant 

 livestock director, and one of the pick-up men, who must be expert 

 horsemen, ''stands by" ready to "take up" the horse at the 

 judge's pistol which signals the ride is ended. Star riders like 

 Caldwell, always help the pick-up men by handing over 

 their halter rope as they ride alongside. In some big shows in 

 Winnipeg for instance, straight wrangling is done away with, 

 the horse being saddled and the rider mounting in a chute from 

 which he debouches into the arena and thus is done away with 

 one of the hazardous, but most picturesque phases of range life. 



