He wondered, as they walked along, if Potter and the boys at the stables had framed a rodeo spectacle for themselves and were to witness some worm-fence bucking by midget contestants.
A veteran cow hand or a frequenter of the modern rodeo would have walked out on the roundup of the scattered kine of the Bar-O ranch on this gray October day.
It was true that camels just naturally frightened horses and mules, and thus were responsible for an unrehearsed but extremely lively rodeo wherever they made an unexpected appearance.
For the first time since arriving in America, and the last, this was one unscheduledrodeo for which a camel would never be held to accounting.
In this instance, it was not only impossible to go on, but the camels must travel with the rest of the expedition's livestock for many days and miles and a full-scale rodeo every day and every mile was not the way to assure success.
Let me dress you as you ought to be dressed, give you the right kind of a horse, and the whole of the rodeo will be yours.
And you know as well as I do, Peter, that most anybody would sell their soul to ride in that rodeo with a fine outfit.
The rodeo was held on the plains to the east of the post-office.
Judith could not enter the Fourth of July rodeo until she was at least sixteen.
The Mountain City rodeo is a tough proposition for a young girl to tackle," said Peter.
The rodeo at Mountain City was the ultimate and almost hopeless dream of every young rider.
Well, it was the bestrodeo we ever had," said Peter.
You couldn't keep her away from the rodeoand you know it," sneered Charleton.
We may tentatively draw their boundary between Rodeoand Crockett.
There are therefore reasonable grounds contained in Amador's diary for placing the Juchillones on the shore of San Pablo Bay from Point San Pablo northeast to Rodeo or beyond.
Thereafter they saw a village on each of San Pablo, Pinole, and Rodeo Creeks.
The USGS sheets now show 20 streams between Milpitas and Rodeo which were named on the maps, or whose names are otherwise well recognized.
At Rodeo Creek was a village larger than the other two.
Anza refers to only one, in addition to the one on Rodeo Creek, viz.
Although Anza does not specifically mention this village, both he and Font agree that at the camp (on Rodeo Creek) was another town, which Anza says "is larger than the two mentioned.
The rodeo (pronounced ro'-deo in North Dakota) customarily is held in a large arena surrounded by a stout fence.
A rodeois usually a feature of the fair, with both white and Indian riders participating.
Brill Healy, boss of the rodeoby election, was in charge.
There never was a rodeo where some cattle didn't slip through unnoticed, Jim.
Rodeo stepped forward, bowing with the politeness of a Spanish don.
Rodeo made me swear to aid him in hunting down the murderer of his brother.
It was at Stockton that we saw our first rodeo or round-up.
The rodeo is a part professional and part amateur Wild-West show.
Then there was a rodeo near the hacienda, and there came five or six caballeros to stay with him for the feast.
Months afterwards it was said that she had been identified among a band of wild horses in the Coast Range, as a strange and beautiful creature who had escaped the brand of the rodeo and had become a myth.
Finally we got the cows and calves home, got our wood in and started a general rodeo for the dry stock--Nature's fleecy mantle getting thicker every minute.
It don't look none too good, going out on rodeo in water about three miles too deep for wading, though the idea of lass'ing a whale calf and branding it does hold a certain fascination.
It was true, as Blakeman had said, that Jim Barrows knew she intended to carry the rodeo prize money on her person.
The rodeo was drawing to a close and already many persons were leaving the stands.
At the time of the rodeo he forced him to keep Catapult out of the show, expecting to win a large sum of money for himself.
Several persons were standing near when I cashed the check at the rodeo office," she ended, "but I don't remember anyone in particular.
I'm only sayin' it goes agin' my grain to play it on the boys thet way with them all thinkin' I've entered Catapult in the rodeo same as always.
We'll kidnap old Catapult tonight and sneak him into the rodeo barns!
Finally she gave up the search, and presenting her check at the rodeo office, received cash in the amount of seven hundred and fifty dollars.
In the orchard many caballeros fresh from the rodeo were camped, their waiting-time spent chiefly in talking of the thing they meant to do or hoped to see, while they polished spur-shanks and bridle trimmings.
He but waits for the rodeo and until I have healed his shoulder--and then you shall see!
Also, it occurred to Dade that he had not once mentioned Teresita, although, before the rodeo his talk had been colored with references to the girl.
Dade was quite ready to go out to rodeo work; indeed, he was anxious to go.
Truly, I think that samerodeo has been but the breeding-ground of gossip and ill-feeling, and is like to bear bitter fruit.
At least, he could do it when he had not seen her for several hours, which made rodeo time a relief for which he was grateful.
They were sent out from Rodeo as marshals, but the mob that would have met Farnsworth at the outskirts of the town, to hang him, was the real boss.
But if he was innocent, why did he not stay and face his accusers, and go back to Rodeo with the marshals and prove himself innocent?
The broncho boys galloped into the town ofRodeo early in the afternoon, having put their horses to full speed, only stopping now and then to give them a blow.
The following afternoon the broncho boys, led by Ted Strong, marched up the main street of Rodeo to the jail with a score of desperadoes bound to their horses.
I know this, if Farnsworth left Rodeoairly this mornin' thar was some good reason fer it.
Then look fer a big piece o' news from Rodeo right soon.
Arm yourselves and saddle, ready to take the road to Rodeo as quickly as you can.
That Farnsworth knew of the murder of Helen Mowbray before he quitted Rodeo his question to Ted left no doubt, and the shadow of suspicion under which he had lived was reason enough for him to leave the town before its discovery.
In the first place, we must ride to Rodeo with all speed.
One of the men, Jesus Mabot, I hired to go to the Rodeo with me, while the Chinese gardener hired another named Fernando.
One day during the Rodeo we were out where the vaqueros were working and on our return found our home, a 'dobe house, burned down, and all our belongings with it, including considerable provisions.
It was to a rodeo similar to the one which I have attempted to describe that Jesus Mabot and I departed following the incident of the selling of the sheep.
He had returned, as has been related, in time to see Bud leap from the fence to the back of a galloping horse in preparation for rodeo stunts.
Gone, now, on the part of the boy ranchers, was any interest they may have had in the coming rodeo at Palmo.
That ought to get him something at Palmo," commented Snake Purdee, referring to a coming rodeo in a nearby town close to the Mexican border.
For the next ten days or so we had sheep-working on hand, and I was kept pretty busy; and we had the regular para rodeo of the cattle on Saturday as usual, which was now quite easy to manage.
On Saturday I had our usual para rodeo of the cattle, and they came up well.
Royd, "we will wait and see if more of them come up to therodeo in a week's time.
When, however, we got them up to the rodeo and made a count, at least two hundred and fifty animals seemed missing.
We had a gathering together of the cattle, but we were short-handed, and when we got them up to the rodeo we were compelled to conclude that a good many of them were missing.
I let go the black horse and saddled up the rosillo, and on returning to the rodeo was pleased to find that several of our native neighbours had arrived.
I was out pretty regularly looking up the cattle, and I kept on fancying from time to time that some were missing; nor, when we had the para rodeo did I ever think as many came up as used to do.
The gathering up, however, was not a successful one, for although we did not let any we saw break back, when we got them upon the rodeo they certainly seemed fewer than usual.
Before the sun was two hours high, the first rodeo of the day was together, numbering about three thousand mixed cattle.
I extended my greetings to the Mexican foreman, whom I had met at the rodeo about a month before.
Where the watering facilities were so limited the rodeo was an easy matter.
That morning after a big rodeo on the Nueces, well above the Ganso, we returned to camp.
The rodeo had been granted for the following day; there was a pressing invitation to Don Lance--unless he was willing to offend--to spend the idle day as the guest of Don Mateo.
Not over once a week did we send in cattle to the ranch to brand, and on meeting the rodeo from below, Deweese had over three thousand of our cattle.
Boys," said Uncle Lance, "we want to make a big rodeo on the head of this creek in the morning.
The rodeos nowadays are neither as great occasions, nor as exciting ones, as they used to be; but this is the way a rodeo is managed.
It was he who told the boys that the rodeo was over.
By the way, if the rodeo has been a very large one, they are several days branding the cattle, so they are turned out to pastorear a little while each day.
Of course the cattle used to stray all over the country, and get badly mixed, as there were no fences; so the rodeo was held for the purpose of separating the cattle and branding the calves that had never been marked.
The IX rodeo has worked down this side of the mountains, an' it'll be a week before the slope's clear of riders.
Colston smiled: "NL rodeo probably camped near here an' the boys run in to wake up the town!
Then you can finish the west end after the Rodeo is over.
The Rodeo starts on Tuesday, the roping and bucking finals come on Thursday.
It would be necessary for him to register the filly, with the entry judges, on the first day of the Rodeo if she was to run in the two-mile sweepstakes.
The rules of the Rodeo required, also, that all who expected to participate in any of the events of the coming week must "show" in the grand march or parade.
You can 'break' the round-up for a few days during the Rodeo and what cattle you've got gathered by then can be turned into the big pasture and held there till it's over.
Old Heck had forgotten the annual Rodeoheld in Eagle Butte, for some days each summer, around the Fourth of July.
Aw, that'll put us right in the middle of it on the Fourth of July when the Rodeo is going on in Eagle Butte--" Bert began.
Before the sun dipped into the Costejo peaks the Ramblin' Kid left the Rodeo and returned alone to the Quarter Circle KT.
The Eagle Butte Rodeo had closed, with one last riotous carnival of wildness at midnight Saturday night.
Why don't you take her in when theRodeo is on and run her in the sweepstakes then?
Never had there been such a jam at a Rodeo held in Eagle Butte.
The downpour continued so heavily that we knew the rodeo had been abandoned, and we turned our faces for the long, dripping, splashing ride homeward.
Next morning there was to have been a great rodeo or round-up, and we determined to have a hunt first, as there were still several kinds of beasts of the chase, notably tapirs and peccaries, of which the naturalists desired specimens.
