THE CAPE GIRARDEAU DEMOCRAT — JUNE 16, 1900
TALL TALE FROM THE WEST ◇ Related by a Veracious
Cow Puncher About a Beautiful Bucking Bronco.
A cowboy visiting an eastern city not long ago got to talking about broncos and their ways, and he was reminded of a story which his friend, the “Montana Kid,” is fond of telling, relates the Little Chronicle. “We was a lot of us talking,” said the man from the west, “about the way a bronco will buck and how long it will take him to get tired out once he gets started, providing he don’t throw his man before he gets through with it. One of the boys was saying as how he did not believe no cowpuncher was alive that could stay on a bronc as long as the critter felt like bucking. He said the man would fall off dead beat long before the bronc was anywhere near having enough.
“The Kid says, says he: ‘How long did you ever know a bronc buck?’
“‘Two hours, or two and a half? says the other feller. And he said it as if he was kinder ’shamed; just like he had been caught bluffing half way through a bluff.
“‘Two hours,’ says the Kid. “Two hours or two hours and a half, is it? Why, say, I stayed on a bucking horse for two days and three nights once. He commenced bucking along towards evening of one day and he kicked around the place all that night and all the next day and the next night and the next day and the night after that. The next morning after that he dropped, and he didn’t get bucked since.
