Word: cowboying
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...Oddie was originally an Easterner, born in Brooklyn, brought up in New Jersey. Later he had three years' experience as a cowboy in Nebraska. But he did not get to Nevada on his cayuse. He went there via a New York law school, and was sent out as attorney for the mining railroad and other interests of the Stokes and Phelps estates. There he became partner of " the famous Jim Butler," who discovered the Tonopah gold and silver field, and later had a hand in founding the Goldfield mines. So he is not a newcomer to the silver industry...
...AUSTIN'S RODEO." Tex Austin, it appears, is the champion manager of cowboy championships. "He always pays 100 cents on the dollar. He plays no favorites. No one ever bought, stole or ran away with a title at one of Tex Austin's contests." So reads his literature-which has been deposited by the mailman in most of the ranch post boxes of the West...
...Austin's world's championship cowboy contest takes place at the Yankee Stadium, New York, Aug. 15 to 25. Here then is the greatest primitive spectacle of the struggle of man against beast that the laws of our land permit. " Bronk " riding, steer bulldogging (diving from horseback to the horns of a wild steer and throwing it by the application of human leverage to the sweeping horns); calf roping; trick and fancy riding for both sexes; steer riding; relay race; and cowgirls' bronk riding are featured. There is certainly nothing on the stage; little in the movies...
...Oaks, a cow-town "where undertakers were more in demand than lawyers." Later he settled in Chicago, practicing law and writing, in his spare time, for out-of-doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field?other books include The Story of the Cowboy, (praised by Theodore Roosevelt), The Man Next Door, The Girl at the Halfway House and The Covered Wagon, which, in its movie incarnation, gave him, perhaps, his widest audience...
...Five cowgirls rode up and delivered bouquets of wild flowers to Mrs. Harding. The motion picture cameras missed the presentation; so Mrs. Harding had the girls do it over again, and saw that they were well photographed. The President said he was sorry for the passing of the cowboy, but could not bear the passing of the cowgirl...