ten in the morning
It was a community affair in which was felt an intense pride . All Lost Chief attended , of course , and people came in automobiles and in sheep wagons and in the saddle from the ranches for a radius of a hundred miles . Burning heat and cloudless heavens , the high west wind and the nameless exhilaration and urge of the Rockies at seven thousand feet , this was the day of the rodeo . The exhibition began at ten in the morning and lasted all day , with an hour at noon for dinner . There was the usual roping and throwing of steers and the usual riding of bucking broncos by men and women young and old . Douglas rode and rode well , but he had his peer in Jimmy Day and in Charleton . Judith rapidly eliminated all the women contestants and then began to vie with the men in the riding of buckers .