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animal does not always win the spurs. In the performances of the bucking broncos and
their cowboy riders it will be noticed that, among all the quadrupedal concentrations of
chain lightning no two resort to the same tactics of defense. One will permit himself
to be saddled and mounted before letting out the pent-up deviltry with which his hide is
stuffed. Another will quietly submit to being saddled, but that is his limit of sufferance.
To still another the very sight of a saddle is a signal of war. This one will start off hump-
ing his back like a mad cat, and landing stiffly on all fours with the force of a pile-driver.
That one will lie down and stubbornly refuse to budge. Still another will rear and fall back-
wards with such reckless fury as to sometimes beat out his brains. A fourth will kick, strike
or bite, or all this and more too, with a savage viciousness rendering him more dangerous to a
tyro than would be a hungry lion. And these are but sample illustrations among innumer-
able insane efforts to escape the ignominy of bearing burdens. In some instances it will be
noted that the bucker seems intent upon injuring his rider only; in others, that he aims to
disable himself as well, and, that he is frantically bent upon committing suicide. He
is a great natural actor in an equine and equestrian specialty, so full of fiery and furious vim
that it is well worth seeing a score of times, and never loses intense interest.

THE VAQUERO OF THE SOUTHWEST.

Between the "cow-boy" and the "vaquero" there is only a slight line of demarcation.
The one is usually an American, injured from boyhood to the excitements and hardships of
his life, and the other represents in his blood the stock of the Mexican, or it may be of the
half-breed.

In their work, the methods of the two are similar, and to a certain extent the same is
true of their association. Your genuine vaquero, however, is generally, when off duty,
more of a dandy in the style and get-up of his attire than his careless and impetuous com-
peer. He is fond of gaudy clothes and when you see him riding well mounted into a frontier
town, the first thought of an Eastern man is that a circus has broken loose in the neighbor-
hood, and this is one of the performers. The familiar broad-brimmed sombrero covers his
head; a rich jacket, embroidered by his sweetheart, perhaps, envelopes his shapely shoulders;
a sash of blue or red silk is wrapped around his waist, from which protrude a pair of revolvers;
and buckskin trousers, slit from the knee to the foot, and ornamented with rows of brass or
silver buttons, complete his attire, save that enormous spurs, with jingling pendants are
fastened to the boots, and announce in no uncertain sound the presence of the beau ideal
vaquero in full dress.

His saddle is of the pure Mexican type, with high pommel, whereon hangs the inev-
itable lariat, which in his hands is almost as certain as a rifle shot.

Ordinarily he is a peaceful young fellow, but when the whiskey is present in undue propor-
tions he is a good individual to avoid. Like
the cow-boy, he is brave, nimble, careless of
his own life, and reckless of other people. At
heart he is not bad. The dependence on
himself which his calling demands, the
dangers to which his is subjected while
on duty, all compel a sturdy self-reliance,
and he is not slow in exhibiting the fact
that he possesses it, in a sufficient degree
at least for his own protection. True types
of this peculiar class, seen nowhere else
than on the plains, will be among the at-
tractions of the show; and the men will il-
lustrate the methods of their lives in connec-
tion with the pursuit and catching of ani-
mals, together with the superb horseman-
ship which is characteristic of their training.