The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-29
BY Fl. w. FARADAY International News Service Staff
 Correspondent).

Correspondent).
 RENO, New, June 29.-The Rodeo, or roundup, as it will be staged at Reno, New, the first four days of July, is the twentieth century adap- tation of the original carnival-indus- trial event as it took place in the days of Spanish grants in early Cali i fornia.
 California, the home of the stock raising. industry in the west, had it's own precedents and lore handed down from the Indians to the cabal. leros and their descendants. From the Golden State cattle raising spread across the Sierras into Nevada, Ari- zona, New Mexico and western Texas. AS it spread the customs of the old Spanish rodeo spread with the industry, although as commercial ism crept in more and more, the rodeo, with it's fine hospitality and gayety, became the annual roundup Never could the real basic customs of the rodeo be changed, however, for the lore of hundreds of years gov- erned the caballero as he slowly changed into the buckaroo. ..
 Always the mark of the old Span- ish caballero and his rodeo fiesta has strikingly branded the later day roundup. In early days the Hidalgos, with picked following of vaqueros and their remudas of fine saddle horses, assembled at stated inter- vals at chosen hacienda, or ranch, and rounded up cattle from the hills for miles round, driving them to the rodeo grounds to be branded. ear. marked and distributed to the various owners to be driven to their holdings.
 These rodeos lasted week, some- times longer. The days were filled with the serious and oft dangerous business of working cattle. In this business every able. bodied man took | pleasure-seeking, beginning with the l barbecues furnished by the owner of the rodeo ground, where steers, roasted whole, were cut and dis tributed to all who cared to partake of the hospitality, the meal washed down with quantities of wine.
 Following the barbecue could be heard the soft jingle of guitars, as gallant vaqueros sereuaded their loves, or quickening music of the waltz called man and maid to the dance floor, where,e under the eyes of watchful chaperons, the ever new game of love was played
 1 Following the dance the men, pie turesque in jacket and calzoners of leather or velvet, heavily trimmed with cords and buttons of silver, high-heeled boots, silken shirts and costly sombreros, would generally wind up the festivities with heavy drinking of brandy to instill life for the dawn and it's resumption of work.
 Day after day the program would be repeated with slight variation, until men, women and beasts were exhausted. A few days rest then off to other rodeos would go the younger caballeros, where at some distant hacienda flashing eyes of fair maidens would applaud their work in the day and, half hidden by the in evitable fan, daringly flirt at night
 Young blood ever runs hot with de- sire of emulation, and the modern cowgirls and buckaroos equal and oft surpass the daring riding of their forebears in the old stirring times now riding not only for the glance of dark eyes, but risking life and limb for applause of strange audiences and discontinue of rivals.
 How closely the lore of the old time rodeo holds sway is seen in the costume of the present-day cowboy. The shape of the sombrero is the same as when the Spanish caquero rode over the green hills of Califor nia to the hacienda of the rcdeo. Practically all his equipment holds the characteristics which .distin- guished the outfit of the caballero in the golden days of the range In this equipment a rigid fashion holds sway now as it did hundred years ago, when the only way the luckier cow boy could advertise his prosperity was in the amount of gold and silver with which he could decorate his saddle, his bridle and his spurs. Many old timers insist that high as is the skill of the modern cowboy the buckaroo of bygone days in Cali fornia and Nevada possessed a de.