Text © MMIX by East Oregonian Publishing Company Photographs © MMIX individuals and collections as credited with each photo. EO Archive: East Oregonian Digital Archive Hall of Fame Collection: Courtesy of the Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon Hall of Fame, Pendleton, OR—all photos by Nicole Barker for the East Oregonian


Hamley Archive: Courtesy of Hamley & Company, Pendleton,OR Helm Collection: Courtesy of Polly Helm, Portland,OR Howdyshell Collection: Courtesy of the Howdyshell Collection, Pendleton, OR


Low Collection: Courtesy ofWayne Low, Pilot Rock,OR OHS Collection: Courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society, Portland,OR PWM Archive: Courtesy of the Pendleton Woolen Mills Archive, Portland, OR


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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data


Bales,Michael. Pendleton Round-Up at 100 : Oregon’s legendary rodeo / by Michael Bales and Ann Terry Hill ; with contributions by Roberta Conner and William F. Willingham ; foreword by Gordon Smith ; edited by Karen Kirtley. p. cm.


Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-88240-773-9 (hardbound) — ISBN 978-0-88240-774-6 (softbound) 1. Pendleton Round-Up—History. I.Hill,Ann Terry. II. Kirtley, Karen. III. Title. GV1834.55.O72P463 2009 791.8'409795—dc22


2008042368


President: Charles M.Hopkins Associate Publisher: Douglas A. Pfeiffer Editorial Staff: Timothy W. Frew, Kathy Howard, Jean Bond-Slaughter Editor: Karen Kirtley Design: Elizabeth Watson Production Coordinator:Vicki Knapton


86 OLD-TIME COWGIRLS Printed in China 66 AT THE BEGINNING 7 9


FOREWORD BY U.S. SENATOR GORDON SMITH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


CONTENTS


10 THE FIRST 100 YEARS OF THE PENDLETON ROUND-UP


44 ROUND-UP REMINISCENCES: “YOU CAN’T EAT LOUND-UP”


72 THE GREAT BUCKING CONTESTS


 Lula Matlock, queen of the 1917 Round-Up. Low Collection.


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