Robust Brahma bull riding is rodeo’s acknowledged number one action event and, like dessert, it usually is the last course on the schedule.
One week last spring, the MC Ranch buckaroos moved 1,600 head of cattle almost 70 miles. For those Oregon cowboys, the drive was nothing extraordinary because they’re horseback every day, six and seven days a week, all year long. They’re living proof that the range-riding cowboy is not dead.
During the time of wild, unorthodox exhibition rides in rodeo, Jesse Stahl made his contribution by riding a bareback bronc backwards.