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A love that is never-ending

I've just removed the "A love that is never-ending" section. It read as follows:

Rodeo is big business. While rodeo no longer outweighs auto racing, baseball and football in spectator numbers, it is a multi-million dollar industry with thousands of competitors, rodeo queens and countless fans. Behind the scenes you will find passion, determination, love, blood, sweat and tears. Rodeo is still a way of life for many families, as is farming and ranching. While the percent of the population involved in the rodeo business is less than 1%, most of the entire population has come in contact with a rodeo event at one point in their lives and find it just as thrilling as they did long ago.

I'm sure it's appropriate for a page on the history of rodeo to sound pro-rodeo, but this is awfully gushing--and the article itself mentions ongoing controversy about the rodeo, which means this concluding section makes the article sound dismissive of the animal cruelty charges. Besides, the section has some claims that could use substantiation--how many fans? how many people have had contact with the rodeo? and how many of those found it so thrilling? how much money is there in the rodeo business?--64.180.163.229 09:47, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To merge or not to merge

I think that it would be better to merge the history section of the rodeo article into this article, not vice versa. Montanabw 02:37, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Old Material to Review

Material that was in this article before content from Rodeo history sections were copied in, see this diff [1], please check if any of this should be re-included in either article -Hunting dog (talk) 06:37, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Some of this is actually better than what's in there now. I vote for putting it back in and just merging the stuff there in only where it is unique and not duplicative.

1700s-1800s

The early beginnings of rodeo trace all the way back to the Spanish ranches of 1700. Rodeo events are derived from ranch chores. During the westward expansion in the early 1800s, Americans came in contact with vaqueros from Mexico, Texas and California and began to learn about their ways of ranching. Ranchers began holding informal competitions after a long days work. The earliest recorded rodeo was in 1864.

1900s

Multiple sites in the United States claim to have held the first Rodeo competition. The earliest documented rodeo in the U.S. was held in Pecos, Texas on July 4, 1883. Another North American city claims to have held a rodeo earlier than Pecos, but Prescott, Arizona's first rodeo was five years later, on July 4, 1888. And, it is also claimed that the first rodeo was in 1884 in Deer Trail, Colorado when two neighboring ranchers competed to settle an argument about who was better at performing Ranch tasks. The famed Cheyenne Frontier Days didn't begin until several years later. Rodeos were held in Mexico long before any of these. Bill Pickett introduced Steer wrestling around 1910.

Anti-rodeo groups

In 1924, famed author John Galsworthy and Henry Nevinson, an international correspondent, condemned rodeo for its cruelty. One year later, Wisconsin Governor John Elaine vetoed a bill aimed against rodeos. 1927 brought the Chicago Anti-Rodeo League which requested President Coolidge not attend the Tri-State Rodeo in Belle Fourche, South Dakota stating rodeos were "brutal, demoralizing and commercialized cruelty." President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the rodeo and saw 13 steers bulldogged, one of which was shot and dragged out of the arena after breaking its leg. A few months later, President Coolidge was invited to a rodeo in Manhattan by "Dakota" Clyde Jones who had previously given the President riding lessons. The President put on his enormous 'wild west' hat and agreed to be photographed outside stating "that will be enough rodeo for me this time".

This was only the beginning of what would be yet to come from PETA, SHARK and other animal rights groups. Their activities have included throwing a tofu pie in the face of the newly crowned Miss Rodeo America Brandy Dejongh in December of 1999. Rodeo associations have very strict rules on the way animals are treated; animal rights groups contend that the rules are poorly enforced.^[1]

References

^ SHARK's examination of the PRCA's animal welfare regulations, including several claims of footage showing widespread violations - SharkOnline.org

Rodeo Stars that Needs Their own Article

- 4.240.165.60 (talk) 07:12, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] SHARK's examination of the PRCA's animal welfare regulations, including several claims of footage showing widespread violations - SharkOnline.org

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