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the men who took part. Three well known rulers entered, \V. R. Stewart, Frank Arnold and Jeff Davis. Arnold opened the hall on an innocent looking hay horse. He didn’t retain his innocence and guilelessness for any great length of time. As Roon as Arnold got comfortably settled in the saddle, a sharp cut with the quirt started the fun fthat is for the spectators.) The horse did some pretty extensive pitching. He bucked through the crowd, and nearly caused a had ruuaway hy getting info collision with a wagon full of ladies. Arnold gave a tine exhibition of riding, but his broncho whs not quite the thing for u prize winner. \V. R. Stewart next mounted the g%y cay-use. His horse was a big powerful white outlaw, and about as wicked as they make them. He gave a very pretty exhibition of bucking all by himself at the end of a rope before Stewart climbed him. When Stewart got on and he once started in, the hair began to fly. When the old white felt Billy on bis back, be began to negotiate the problem of getting him off again, but he bad bitten oft’more than he could masticate, fie started in by “winding” and then bucked and bawled and snorted, but it was no use. He finally threw himself, and probably thought he bud done the trick, but when lie* got on his feet again, Billy still sat there smiling, and the white knew* that the game was up. He still continued bucking Imrd enough to shake the back teeth out ot any ordinary mortal, but Billy rode him to a stand still, and until he was willing to stand as quiet as u lamb. As one man put it in tlie quaint western phraseology, “talk about Buffalo Bill. Texas Jack or Wild Bill!—why, if cither of them bad been there, he would have hidden under the judges’ stand with shame, and never called hiiiiBelf a broncho buster again.” Jeff Davis did not have a broncho of his own, so he borrower! the same old white that Stewart hud
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Fort MacLeod Gazette
Fort MacLeod, Alberta, CA
Fri, Sep 25, 1896
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