East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-09-22
How the Roundup Appeals
to Me
BY PHILLIP ASHTON ROLLINS
Author of "The Cowboy"

~OR Rip Van Winkle to have the range ever thirty
years and to have come TO fendleon in this present
= wear 1922, is a very great privilege,
What does he today in Pendeton at Roundup me as
compared with what he during years OF riding on the
puted king and wheat not yet grown in the cattle country
when every man wore chaps ana m ne 1roe Wv was d c' @ m
view Pendeton He the Old West revved and staged
in the full swing of its old time strenuous virilty
The only elements not pictured the bygone uncomfortable
phases to wit the vast unenaned stretches grassland and
sage brush isolation the ranches the loneliness the
heart breaking fires and in winter drftngs the stom
ach destroying efforts of Cookie The rest of the old life
shows itself lines vivid wholly sincere and with the certain
deductions mentioned below, entirely accurate If my
perence the trail and the old and p
CAL and think was then suggest that one must make Ger
tain deductions from the display at Pendeons Roundup
order to make the picture of today fit squarey onto the scenes
One must vastly top riders
Of PGndeon % top pe @ . ana ponies OF od MG
ranch range state assembled tried to assemble So
many top horses slabs of death Pendeon crowds
into her arena Consequently the onooker OF today will see
Pendeon single afternoon more of expert riding more of
heavenward buckng than the old days he could have seem
during term years the bygone Pendeton has
skinned the entire West for riders and for horses and h.
this the present day picture inaccurate and inaccurate
only to the extent that it is finer than the old:
Other phases of the spectacle like The budoggng the trick
riding the fancy rpmg the Roman represent inventions
made since the cattle days and unpactced the open
They because of the marvellous excellence of their perform
ace do not disturb the picture Moreover they repeatedly
call from their performers exhibitions of trans Missouri quail
iy quality known the Spirit of the West quality which
an asset invaluable to the nation. /,
The Indians impressive they attend with all their
old pride in tribe pride undminished and complete.
Finally there the people of Pendleton who unwttngy
become to visitor part of the spectacle for these people
Pendleton have than spelled "hOsptat with
ers. They have given their town to guests have
made vertable shrine for the Spirit Of the West Climb
down and eat bean with us of the oden days has given way
to the PendetOnans handing their homes visitors
temporarily moving to gopher holes and then cheerfuy vaca
ing the holes to accommodate late comers. ii
The Roundup, if considered athletic contest ut
tey dwarfs the most important of the intercollegiate
games despite their huge attendant crowds utterly dwars
world series in baseball despite its Importance The Round
Up gives action instant and in tranoad
~ the Round from its very nature is wholly free from pos
by Of such faint of selling out as baseball recently felt
Taken whole, the Round Up show as America II
uses that term is mosaic of pieces rescued from
such little corners of the Old West still survive these pieces
NEEDED INTO great dignted and stirring spectacle which
is of historical accuracy of great educational value of unim
tied possibilities of influence patriotism Americanizaon
and is of national Importance
This my opinion of the Roundup Asked to state it. find -
mat nave unconcousy turned to style of phrasng which
r T. Barnum used cannot help doing Three Gays in
endeton nave so stirred me through present sights and the
suggested recoeeons of old time days that that's the way
eel Not only Let er buck but make er keep buckr
fer year. = 'e ''i n.