1920 & 1925 RODEO PROGRAMS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CHICAGO

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1920 & 1925 RODEO PROGRAMS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CHICAGO "1920's CHAMPIONSHIP RODEO PROGRAMS" This auction is for 3 championship 'Cowboy' Rodeo programs. Each of the programs is different and I will detail below. The common theme with all of the programs is that they are promoted/produced by Tex Austin and held in Chicago. 1) 'WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST' Simple folded (6 inches x 9 inches) 1 page sheet black printing on tanned white paper on both sides. Indicates the contestants and the 12 events that would be held. The contest is dated Saturday, July 3rd 1920 and was held in or around the stockyards in Chicago. T are a few manuscript emmandations in a space provided for indicating times and scores for the various performers. This event was produced by Tex Austin. 2) 'OFFICIAL RULES AND ENTRIES OF THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST OF COWBOY SPORTS' 14 page, purple and white printed, saddle stapled program (6 inches x 9 inches) featuring an inside cover portrait of Austin in addition to his biography. The program details each of the events, the prize money to be won, and the rules. The program is for an event held in Chicago from July 3rd to 11th 1920. 3) 'OFFICIAL PROGRAM - WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP RODEO CONTEST' Saddle stapled, 96 page rodeo program with blue printed / pictorial wraps. Compared to the two examples above, this program demonstrates just how far the production of the Rodeo advanced in the space of 5 years. This program describes in detail all the highlights and virtues of the city of Chicago and features numerous advertisements from area sponsors. The program is profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs. As with the other two earlier programs, this event was also produced and 'managed' by noted rodeo promoter Tex Austin. ______________________ John Van "Tex" Austin (1886 � 26 October 1938) was an American rodeo promoter, known as the King of the Rodeo or " Daddy of the Rodeo " because of his efforts to popularize the rodeo outside of its core American West demographic. He owned the Forked Lightning Ranch in New Mexico. From 1925 to 1929 he was promoter, manager and director of the Chicago Roundup. Austin's birth name in St. Louis, Missouri was Clar�ence Van Nos�trand. In 1908 he left St. Louis and adopted a new persona changing his name (and usually was called Tex Austin) and saying that he was raised on a cattle ranch in Victoria, Texas.[3] He worked at the L.F.D. Ranch in Roswell, New Mexico and then at a ranch at Las Vegas, New Mexico. He claimed to have worked for Don Luis Terrazas, the Chihuahua cattle baron of the Creel-Terrazas Family. In 1910 he was a captain under Francisco Villa in Madero's revolutionary forces against Diaz. His first produced rodeo was in El Paso, Texas. In 1918 in Wichita, Kansas he produced the first indoor rodeo. (This fact is disputed. The Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, held in Fort Worth in February, 1918, also claims to be the first indoor rodeo.) In 1920s Austin put together a rodeo and played in Chicago Stadium, New York's Madison Square Garden (1922), and in Hollywood. He even took his rodeo to the newly opened Wembley Stadium in London, in 1924. Austin took to Britain such rodeo stars as: Ike Rude, Manerd Gayler, Dave Campbell and Rube Roberts. The rodeo was challenged by animal rights activists attempting to get a court order barring the rodeo on the basis of animal cruelty. The Wembly rodeo, in which Austin lost $20,000, was to cause Parliament to pass the Protection of Animals Act 1934 which made it an offense to rope an untrained animal or to ride one using a cruel appliance such as a strap cinched tight around its genitals. Tex Austin returned to London with his rodeo in 1934 and they performed before the king and queen. Bronc riders including Herman Linder, Frank Sharp and Pete Knight rode in the 1934 London rodeo; the featured bucking horse of the show was the legendary Midnight. New Mexico ... read more

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