HELLBENT! 



This picture of hell bent and back again hardly describes this 

 picture or the sensations its rider must have felt when this hell- 

 diving demon "broke in two." The rider is Lee Caldwell of Pen- 

 dleton, the bucker is Flying Devil. The ride was made at Miles 

 City, Montana, which brought this peer of bucking riders the 

 Montana State Bucking Championship. The picture was taken by 

 Marcell and is a remarkable bucking picture, for it is seldom one 

 catches real action on a real tough horse. 



"Lee," I said one night when he dropped in to see me, from 

 his ranch hidden away back up the Canyon. "How about Flying 

 Devil, was he as bad as he looks?" 



"Well, I'll tell you — I consider him the hardest horse I ever 

 rode. You see, it isn't the horse that sunfishes or twists that 

 makes it hardest for one to ride, it's the punishment he gives the 

 rider. Flying Devil was an outlaw and came from a mountain 

 range either in Montana or Idaho and I consider mountain-bred 

 horses the strongest. Until Flying Devil was broken down in his 

 knees there was practically no direction. You know, a bucking 

 horse's muscles will indicate his action — if he's going to sunfish 

 to the right for instance, his muscles contract accordingly and 

 give you the cue, but he didn't, he was all pure strength and 

 speed— every move he made was just so sudden, there was no 

 spring, no cue. You see," and a retrospective smile passed over 

 his face as he pointed to the extreme southwest corner of the 

 picture, "this is where he was when he started this buck, but fac- 

 ing the other way — you see where he is and how he's facing now. 

 He's the only horse I ever rode that could apparently jump 

 straight backward as far as he could forwards." 



