Cheyenne Frontier Days
Cowboy Church
by aontiveroz on Jul.20, 2009, under Cheyenne Frontier Days, Multimedia
Cowboys are tough sons of guns. There is no doubt in my mind, and likely, none exists in the minds of others either.
On Saturday, I saw Croc Dumdi, a steer wrestler, fall from his steed at full charge. He skidded on the top of his head across the arena floor for nearly 10-15 yards before falling motionless on his stomach. After a couple seconds, he tried to come to his feet, head bleeding like a sacrificial lamb, and he fell again, unconscious. After the medics tended to him, he rose to his feet and walked off the arena floor with what looked like a raspberry-colored hair piece of blood covering his shaved head. He walked off! That’s tough, period.
Even with their myriad, and obvious, physical strengths, these cowboys often look for a solace for pains that cannot be shaken off or healed with a little dirt rub.
