The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-23
BREAKING WILD HORSES.
Science of Broncho Busting to Re |
 empfifled by BugYalo RiIl

scfence of Broncho EustlnR to Re Ex-
 empfffed by BuGaIo Bin.
 The first claim to recognition as an institution for educating the unlearned in American history which the man agement makes for Buffalo BIi's Wild west and Congress of Rough Riders of the World is the very genufneness of 1t all Everything concerned in the entertainment Is as near authenticity as human ingenuity and the unrestrict- ca expenditure of money can mako If Historic in It's origin. Buffalo Btll's Wild West has always maintafned it's established record for genuineness in all things
 It will therefore be interesting to lovers of horse flesh in all varieties 10 learn that there will be a display of broncho busting during the progress of the exhibition when Buffalo Bill and his big organization appears in this city.
 The art of broncho busting has en- gagged the most daring members of the cowboy fraternity since the days when cowboys were first an established ne- cessity In some features of Western development. It is a most dangerous calling and many lives have been sac- rificed in the conflict between the wild horse of the plains and the master hand which has attempted his subtec- tion.
 There need be no fear but what the broncho busting in Buffalo Bilrs wild West will be an exact reproduction of the original article, for 1t will be the genuine thing, and every time q cow boy mounts his horse he will take a great risk of broken bones Tho cow boys will be real cowboys brought from tho Western wilds where they have piled their avocation of herdinE cattle and busting bronchos all their lives. The world is seeing practically the last of this picturesque type of Americans for the fencing of the ranges is fast doing away with their occupation.
 It has never been fully explained just why broneho bucks. but mahy diff ferent theories have. of course been advanced. It Is said by some that they buck because of nervousness; by others because of fear, others genuine cussedness. and this theory is the most accepted.
 vary, but are generally along certain lines l0f bodily contortion. They will 1umpeinto the air and land on all -Four feet stiff-legged; some will jump to the left and then quickly to the right. some half turning fn their flight and always kicking. sEorting and bucking.
 The cowboy retains his seat by his SSfNEdP-HuIus uC WllHSldnQS the sway ing motion by moving his body and he at all times urges the horse to run; for only then can he be said to be in any measure under control. The horse uses all methods to disiodge his rider and if he succeeds, he Is always thereafter far more dif1cult to control than though he had never felt a saddle. Once he is subdued, however, the dan ger of his becoming unmanageable is minimized and he Is a useful member of horsedom.
 In Buffalo Bill's exhibitions there are employed no theatrical device of training to impel the bronchos to buck. They buck of their own free will and are evidently glad to do 1t. They have been picked from hundreds of buckers of the West and are experts in the un- comfortable art of making themselves disagreeabls to those who attempt to ride them.
 One of the later developments of the Wild West organization Is the intro duction of cowglrls to perform, in a certain degree. the difficult feat of making a bucking horse submit to their mastery. These girls are experts too: and like all other features with Buff falo Bills organization they are gem uine types of Western character; real. true to life practical, cowgirls,