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ONE OF THE GREATEST RIDES EVER MADE 



Long Tom has always been used as a grand final horse. In this 

 picture of Ira de Mille making a splendid ride Old Tom is seen 

 up to his old trick of his long head reach, to jerk the halter rope 

 slack through the rider's hand or throw him against the saddle 

 horn. Of those grand final champions who have ridden this 

 splendid outlaw he could buck hard enough for any except Cald- 

 well. No one but that rider felt the necessity of scratching him. 

 One buckaroo admitted he contemplated it, remarking, "I just 

 loosened up my knees a bit and Long Tom wasn't there." 



What is generally conceded as the greatest ride ever made at 

 the Round-Up was in 1915, when Lee Caldwell rode in as king 

 of buckaroo riders and vanquished Long Tom, king of outlaw 

 buckers. He rode him to a finish and as the boys say "sure did 

 kick out hair." This picture shows the rider with his broken 

 forearm fanning and was taken about the end of the first clean 

 away buck, just before the rider's breast bone was broken against 

 the saddle horn through too short a hold on rope. This was the 

 result of the accident with the snubbing rope. 



Caldwell's marvelous record can be appreciated in part by the 

 fact, that in one season's riding he entered nine of the biggest 

 contests in the United States and rode into seven first champion- 

 ships, one second, and lost out in the third, because his first horse 

 did not buck, winding up his season with seven prize saddles and 

 $6,000 prize money, clear of all his expenses. 



It was Caldwell's grit, brains, saddlebornness, horse knowledge, 

 and his remarkable ability to coordinate these to the out-thinking 

 of the wildest outlaw horse, that as far as is recorded enabled 

 hirn to ride into more world's championships in premier con- 

 tests in a given time than any man living. Add to these qualities, 

 a pleasing personality, and we have the reasons of his popularity 

 with both spectators and buckaroos. But it is that last tribunal 

 of judgment "the boys" themselves which has placed Caldwdl as 

 the top-notcher of their clan in the bucking game and that means 

 the greatest living rider the world knows today. 



