“If you get thrown from a horse, you have to get up and get back on, unless you landed on a cactus; then you have to roll around and scream in pain.
-Anonymous
“A bull is like a dancing partner, you just have to let him lead.”
Jim Shoulders on bull riding: “All you do is put one leg on each side and make an ugly face for 8 seconds.”
“If you climb in the saddle, be ready for the ride.”
“The easiest way to eat crow is while it’s still warm. The colder it gets, the harder it is to swaller.”
“If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen are defrocked, shouldn’t it follow that cowboys would be deranged?”
“Courage is being scared to death – and saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
Inscription on John Wayne’s headstone: “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”
Roy Rogers
“When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.”
Did you know?
The longest poker game in western history is said to have taken place in the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona. Played continuously 24 hours a day for eight years, five months, and three days, legend has it that as much as $10million changed hands during the marathon game, with the house retaining 10 percent. Some of the participants were Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Diamond Jim Brady and George Hearst. In the late 1880s, ground water started seeping into the mines causing the town to go bust – taking the Bird Cage Theatre with it. The poker game ended and the building was sealed up in 1889.
PRCA World Champion Bull Rider Warren Granger “Freckles” Brown, remembered for riding an “unrideable” bull named Tornado in 1967, was a friend and mentor to bull riding champion Lane Frost. The friends are buried next to each other in Mount olivet Cemetery in Hugo, Okla.
Why are the tips of cowboy boots so pointy?
It is to make it easier to get your foot into the stirrup.
Why do cowboys/cowgirls where fringe?
You might think it is strictly a fashion statement. But actually fringes act as a run-off for any water or rain that may come into contact with the leather. It helps rid the leather of as much water as possible.
Have cowboys always worn big belt buckles?
No. Cowboy belt buckles did not come around until the first of the 20th century. In reality cowboys usually wore suspenders or buckles that were derived from military friction buckles.
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