SEATED ON A TON AND A HALF OF 

 LIVING DYNAMITE 



"Sharkey the famous bucking bull, $100 to any man who rides 

 him 10 seconds," ran the Round-Up Announcement on poster and 

 program. Then they offered five dollars to any man who 

 would try him. Many tried for the world's bucking bull cham- 

 pionship, few lasted after the first buck or two on the mile wide 

 back of that redoubtable, bucking, black, Belgrade Bull — famous 

 in the annals of the Round-Up. The old veteran was in a 

 class by himself. 



There were no rules — the rider was supposed to hang on to 

 the horn and the strings, hands and feet if he could and just 

 grab anything. The bull-rigged saddle was cinched far aft and 

 skidded all over his backbone with his slippery-elm-lined hide, 

 but the philosophy of bull riding as with the horses is to stay on. 



The same applies to Henry Vogt the Jersey bucking bull — the 

 author tried him in 1913 and went the same way as the rest — 

 twice in one day. In 1914 on a bright sunny afternoon on the 

 last day of the Round-Up he found himself seated on the top 

 of that ton and a half of living dynamite, Sharkey — then some 

 one touched it off. He made a twelve-and-a-half second ride on 

 jerked beef, then bit the dust — this is not in the way of pilfered 



literature either. He broke the record as well as his wrist. 



