LET 'ER BUCK 



roping contest is on "time," these conditions put the 

 knights of the range to the severest test. 



There goes Fred Beeson. He overtakes his steer. 

 Swish! swish! his lariat zips through the air — a 

 beautiful throw over the horns; his cow-pony, respon- 

 sive to the slightest lay of the rein, swings off at just 

 the right angle. The rope tautens like a harp string; 

 something seems to snap — to give — but it's not the 

 rope and it's the great horned adversary who suddenly 

 describes a complete somersault. Thud ! and the steer 

 is thrown — "busted." The rope is now held tight by 

 the cow-pony; the rider is already running afoot with 

 a short length of rope in hand toward the steer, de- 

 pending for his own safety on his trained cow-horse 

 to hold that rope taut and the steer in position. With 

 marvelous speed he "hogties" the steer, stands erect 

 and snaps both arms in the air. Beeson has not only 

 won the steer roping championship this year, but has 

 ridden down, roped, thrown and hogtied a steer in 

 twenty seconds flat and established the best record 

 ever made here, and this made on the Pendleton steers, 

 which are, as one cowboy new to the Round-Up re- 

 marked, "the outrunniness lot of steers I ever did see." 



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Steer bulldogging? Never heard of it? Turn to 

 any Westerner on these bleachers and he'll tell you 

 that it is one of the most "knock down and drag 'em 

 about" events of the Round-Up. When you under- 

 stand that it is a battle of skill and science on the man's 

 part, in which he must leap from the back of his run- 

 ning horse, catch and throw a Texas steer with bare 

 hands then hold it motionless by its upper lip with 



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