The Hualapais

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS JANUARY, 1936 La Fiesta de Los

A FIESTA DE LOS VAQUEROS will thunder into action at Tucson on February 21, 22 and 23 with the fastest rodeo that was ever clocked down a track. February 20 is Indian Day with Apaches, Yaquis, Pimas, Papagos and other tribes competing in their traditional sports and dances. The Arizona Livestock Show and Sale will be in full swing all four days. Fitting contenders for the crown of old Midnight, retired king of the outlaw world, will sunfish into the center field, doing a tail spin and nose dive for good measure while the world's premier riders try to stay forked atop these four-legged Apollyons.

Brown-muscled doggers will defy death as they grapple with Arizona's saltiest oxen, unmindful of flailing cloven hooves. Innocent appearing calves with the speed of Twenty Grand and the originality of one of Satan's most ingenuous imps will test the skill of the ropers.

Wild Brahama bulls with lithe bodies, Herculean strength and human cunning will defy leather-chapped cowboys to cling for a few perilous seconds on top of their hunched backs.

Wild horses, those four-legged clowns of the rodeo world, will afford many a laugh as their antics and perversity try the patience and test the ingenuity of their riders. These little broomtails take the woman's prerogative and change their minds not once, but many times, before some of them accidentally wander around the track and across the home plate.

These events and others of equal interest will thrill the Tucson visitor while he attends the rodeo and enjoys the delightful climate and sunshine of Southern Arizona.

La Fiesta de Los Vaqueros is a non-profit sharing, community-owned celebration which is not a show in any sense of the word, but purely a contest in which they're all headed for Southern Arizona the cowpokes match wits with the aniand the mid-winter rodeo. mals and pit their skill against that of The opening gun will be the big patheir neighbors and the top hands from rade on the morning of the twenty-first. Mexico and Canada. Only horse-drawn vehicles will suppleJack Kinney and his helpers have been ment the long string of cowboys and cowwrangling the meanest bulls, the ornergirls who will ride in the parade. The iest horses, the fastest steers and the Fort Huachuca band will be followed by toughest cowboys in the country and bands from the University of Arizona,

JANUARY, 1936 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS Vaqueros

Simmons University, the Tucson High School, the Roskruge School and the Papgo Indians and the American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps. The Simmons University musicians rate as the best cowboy band in the world. These capable and talented youngsters have maintained this enviable reputation for years and have toured all sections of the United States and Europe.

With booming bands, prancing, shying cowponies and rumbling chuck wagons, the 1936 parade will represent the largest aggregation of contestants ever to assemble for the Tucson Roundup.

The contests will be thrilling and speedy.

Northern Mexico has been combed for its outlaw bulls and 25 choice Brahamas will be on hand to make the riders earn their prize purses.

Homer Holcomb, nationally known funster and bull fighter, will stage some dangerous but side-stitching comedy as he clowns with some ill-tempered brutes that have no sense of humor.

Cuff Burrell will furnish the bucking horses. These outlaws know all the tricks of their demonic trade and they'll pull the draw-string to the breaking point when they high-roll and do a bang-up job of walking-beaming to speed up a meal of gravel for their riders. The bronc busters at Tucson aren't going to be "sitting pretty" either long or often -unless it's in a clump of bear grass.

Johnny Mullins, famous arena director and cowboy, announces the world's largest purse for team steer roping. Between $3,500 and $4,000 will go into the pockets of the premier roping duos. Among the noted rieta twirlers who will make competition tough are Bud Parker and Johnny Rhodes, Roy Adams and Carl Arnold and the Mexican team of Jesus Altamarano and Jose Gonzales.

Calf roping will prove the misfortunes of a community loop and convince the spectators that the calves train with the desert jack rabbits to get up speed for the Tucson contests.

At least five relay strings, representing the best talent in speed in the Southwest have already arranged for stable space. A cowgirls' quick-change relay

Being the Cowboy's Equivalent of a Roman Holiday in Old Arizona

will be a new feature of the rodeo program. The riders will change saddled horses every half mile.

Trick and fancy roping will either be contested or contracted. Wild-horse riding and bareback riding will add to the fun.

A serious side of the big, four-day celebration is the livestock show and sale, in which some of the finest beef cattle and registered Herefords in the country will give the judges a headache as they try to select the blue-ribbon winners. Col. Fred Reppert, nationally known auctioneer, will put the cattle offered for sale under the hammer.

Among the notable visitors will be the delegates to the Rodeo Association of America, which will holds its annual convention at Tucson at this time. Guy Weadick of Calgary, Canada, and rodeo directors from Pendleton, Cheyenne, Salinas, Monte Vista, Burwell, Deadwood, Livingston, Canadian, Prescott and other towns will be in attendance.

La Fiesta de los Vaqueros is popularly known as Southern Arizona's "Frontier Days," the great rodeo event that has been staged for many decades at Prescott, Arizona.

The Tucson and Prescott events have centered the attention of the professional cowboy world on Arizona, the events in the two cities being second to none-not excluding the famous Cheyenne contests.

Rodeo-goers who attend the Tucson celebration will recognize the names and faces of many riders and ropers who have performed at Madison Square Garden in New York and at the Prescott and Wyoming shows.

The neophyte in affairs of the West will enjoy the distinctly Western atmosphere that will prevail at Tucson. Staid business men will appear in 10gallon hats, red bandanas and colorful shirts will be worn, and there will be the click of spurs and the long drawl of the man of the range over many a drinking place.

Rodeos are not presented without toil on the part of many public spirited citizens. A tribute to the genius of the men behind La Fiesta de los Vaqueros is the fact that no red ink blurs the financial records of the past. To make a rodeo succeed, it must be good. Year after year the Tucson show has been good. They'll all be there this year the hard-bitten man of the range and the tenderfoot of 42nd and Broadway to enjoy the sport of kings.

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In the Land of Giant

By MERNICE MURPHY EIGHTY-ONE years before the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock the first white men gazed awe-stricken upon that immense forest of towering cacti which lies ten miles miles east of Tucson and which in 1933 became the baby member of the United States National Parks. Coronado and his adventurous followers were making their famous but futile march in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola.

In 1691 this region was again visited by a white man, Father Eusabio Francisco Kino, a highly educated Jesuit, who began construction of the beautiful Mission San Xavier del Bac on the following year.

In 1776 when the English colonies on the eastern coast were gaining their independence the inhabitants of the little Indian village of Tucson, which squatted along a meandering stream ten miles north of the Spanish mission, went peacefully about their primitive labors. On week days they picked the ripening fruit from the giant cacti, which the Spaniards called the sahuaros, and tilled their little fields; on Sunday they went to mass at San Xavier. But changing times came upon the village. It became a Spanish settlement and was garrisoned by soldiers of the king. Yet not until 1825 did the Indians see the vanguard of that eastern civilization which was steadily pushing west to the Pacific.

The Spaniards, Americans and Indians lived in peace until 1836 when some American miscreant is credited with killing an Apache chief for Spanish scalp bounty. From that date until 1886 the Apaches waged almost unceasing warfare upon the whites.

But peace gradually settled over the old pueblo of Tucson, the Spanish standard was replaced by the Stars and Stripes. Tucson became part of the territory of Arizona, then a part of the State of Arizona. The cow trails and dim wagon roads and deep-rutted stage routes converged into graveled and later paved highways.

From the east comes U. S. Highway No. 80, which passes through Douglas and its Mexican neighbor, Agua Prieta, before reaching Tucson, and from the south, beginning at Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Arizona, comes U. S. Highway No. 89, both of which connect with the proposed international highway which will extend from Mexico, through th United States into Canada. The sam route to Tucson from Phoenix and othe