Mid-September
One of the best-known rodeos in the West, held since 1910 in the small ranch town of
Pendleton, Ore. The home of internationally known saddle makers, Pendleton is also the
heart of Oregon's wheat-producing region. The week-long round-up started as a celebration of the end of the wheat harvest. Happy Canyon was inaugurated four years
later when two local men decided the entertainment at a local fair was of poor quality
and too expensive. The Happy Canyon shows at first depicted historical episodes and
evolved into the present-day Happy Canyon Pageant, a presentation by Northwest Indian tribes that features a teepee encampment and ceremonial dancing. Nowadays,
each day of the rodeo begins with a cowboy breakfast (ham, eggs, flapjacks) at Stillman
Park and ends with the pageant.
In between, the rodeo features the standard competitions approved by the Professional
Rodeo Cowboys Association˙bronco riding, bareback riding, Brahma bull riding, steer
wrestling, and calf and steer roping. Additionally, there are wild horse and stagecoach
races and wild-cow milking.
Full story:
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Pendleton+Round-Up+and+Happy+Canyon
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