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Badger Mountain, a Born
Bucker Who Loved His Job
How could such a sweet fare harbor ornery thoughts? Two of the
nation's top riders, Casey Ttbbs (left) and Deb C'openhaver, perch on
the corral fence at Lewistoo, Idaho, and ponder the Dr. Jekyll ? Mr.
Hyde character of Badger Mountain.
By JACK HE WINS
Loomis, Wash ? Badger Moun
tain was only a horse.
But to Tim Bernard he was the
greatest horse that ever held up a
saddle as he was to many other
members of the Tribe of Ten Gal
lon Hats.
Man O' War? What could he do
but run?
But as long as there are rodeos,
piggin' strings and association sad
dles Badger Mountain will stay
alive in the legends of the bucka
roos.
The gallant old blood bay was 29
and three years retired from the
dust of the arena when a veterin
arian dropped in at Bernard's
ranch here, lie had to do a bit of
filing on Badger Mountain's teeth.
The old campaigner had never
liked the chute, but this time he
walked in quietly to keep his den
tal appointment and, without fuss
or drama, he died.
This was the Badger Mountain
that used to come blasting out of
the chute like the Devil was pok
ing him with a red hot pitchfork.
He could be had, but late in his
career he still was tossing 97 per
cent of the guys who drew him.
"You cin naft*
champion bronc riders from 1934'
through 1946 and Badger threw
them all," says Bernard, adding:
"All except Nick Knight." Nick
had his number. He watched the
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Badger explode into the arena and
after the second or third jump rear
straight up, then pivot and come
slamming down with a great sweep
of his head. By that time most
riders would be walking away, slap
ping the dust out of their chaps.
Nick noticed the horse was al
ways ridden with a loose flank
strap ? the "bucking strap" fast
?ned behind the cinch. Says Tim,
'How he figured it out I don't
know, but the first time Nick rode
Badger he asked me if he could
tighten the flank strap. I told him
tie could. Badger kicked at the
fnoon and Nick stayed with him.
"Nick rode him three times but
he never told another rider his se
cret. Once his brother Tommy
:ould have won the Cheyenne show
if he had known, but Nick played
it square with the Badger."
Bernard and Leo Moomaw ran a
string of rodeo stock that made the
topnotch shows and Badger Moun
tain was just another new horse in
the corrals when they bought him
in 1934 at Douglas, Wash. The 1.
220-pound bronc bucked first at
Waterville, Wash., went on to Pen
delton and from that time on was
the featured horse at Pendleton
Cheyenne.
Ife was unricfeable at Cheyenne
and Fort Worth.
There have been a lot of famous
buckers, like Steamboat and Mid
night of an earlier day and Hell's
\ngel and Five Minutes to Mid
night of Badger's time. The Bad
ger tossed many men who rode his
two rivals.
Here was a horse that loved its
work and made a game of it. You
ion't teach a horse to buck, Tim
will tell you. He must buck be
cause he wants to; if he isn't a nat
ural bucker he doesn't stay long
in a rodeo string. The fearsome
Badger Mountain bucked for 17
pears.
But it was always with his ears
[>ointed forward ? the equine
equivalent of a warrior's smile. You
have Tim's word that this blaze
faced brute was "perfectly gen
tle. In his long career he never
injured a rider. Take the saddle
off and anyone could handle him."
Modern Building Ruins
Dog's Chances as Mascot
Grand Rapid, Mich. (AP) ? "Bus
ter" the Dalmation dog who tried
nut as mascot with the fire de
partment sit* forlornly in the hu
mane society shelter, a victim of
technological unemployment
ft wasn't Buster's fault. Firemen
said he qualified for the job. He
even hopped up onto the teat of
the aerial ladder truck when the
fire bell rang.
But then firemen looked around
them. The environment wasn't
right for Butter. Brick abd pave
ment completely surrounded the
downtown station. "Not even a
place to bury a bone," they said as
they bid Buster goodby.
Connecticut has more than two
million people, more than 75 per
cent of whom are clasalfied as ur
ban dwellers.
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CARTERET COUNTY"
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Renegade, Savages Threaten Lives
Renegade Jeff Morrow and his savage Nukumbi warriors threaten
the lives of Van Heflin, Ruth Roman and Howard Duff in this scene
from Universal-International's Technicolor "Tanganyika."
Progress Trod
Thorny Path
Dallas, Tex. (AP)? Dallas's new
public library is going up without
a hitch but a sign at the construc
tion site is causing no end of trou
ble.
After work on the two millipn
dollar edifice had been under way
about six months city officials no
ticed that a big sign listed every :
lirm taking part in the construc- 1
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tion ? but didn't say what was be
ing built.
A sign painter rushed to the
scene and put up this sign:
"This is really a sign of progress.
A new public library for the City
of Dallas Bonds voted 1927, 1945
and 1952."
City dads were immediately be
sieged to explain the lag between
the 1927 bond vote and the 1954
construction date.
The sign painter rushed out
again.
Now the sign reads simply: "A
sign of progress. A new public
library for the City of Dallas."
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