“No Bull”

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The Northeast Montana Fair’s PRCA Rodeo is Race Association. This year seven teams are
sanctioned with the Professional Wild Horse signed up for this extreme rodeo event.

Prepare yourself for the wildest event in rodeo!

“Wildes Equestrias Rapidious
Celeritous.”
Properly translated that means
“unbroken horses quickly moving”
but we just call it a wild horse race.
Just because you’ve seen one, you
haven’t seen them all.
Each race is different, even
though the players are the same:
three cowboys, an ornery wild horse
and dogged determination — all
the ingredients needed for the most
exciting race on earth.
Rodeo 100 years ago was
Pony Express racing, bronc
riding, steer roping and the wild
horse race. Cheyenne, Pendleton,
Calgary, Prescott, Burwell,
Ellensburg, every rodeo that laid
claim to a future boasted the wild
horse race. Sometimes the streets
of town or a line of wagons and
later automobiles were enough
of a fence to hold a wild horse
race, a natural form of western
entertainment.
The coming of age and the
20th century brought calf roping,
steer wrestling, bareback riding
and bull riding to rodeo, but
the wild horse race remained
constant. A cowboy at the New
York Madison square Gardens
Rodeo quipped: “I get a bull every
third performance and a bareback
horse every other, but so many
cowboys are entered in the wild
horse race, I only compete every
5th performance. It wouldn’t be so
bad, but the wild horse race is my
bread and butter!”
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Blazing Saddles
remainder of
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Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a low around 60. Breezy,
with an east wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31
mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 94. East wind 10
to 14 mph becoming south in the afternoon. Winds could
gust as high as 21 mph.
Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low
around 62. Southeast wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high
as 20 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 96. Light
and variable wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the
afternoon.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63.
Northwest wind around 7 mph becoming east after midnight.
Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers after noon.
Mostly sunny, with a high near 95. East wind 6 to 9 mph,
with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly before midnight. Partly cloudy, with
a low around 64. East southeast wind 6 to 10 mph, with
gusts as high as 18 mph.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. East wind 5 to 9
mph becoming south in the afternoon.
Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers before
midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. East wind 6
to 9 mph becoming south southeast after midnight.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 92. East wind
around 7 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 62.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 90.
Wild Horse Race continued from front
Everyone entered the wild horse races: Yakima
Canutt, Casey Tibbs, Jim Shoulders, Benny Reynolds
and Cotton Rosser. Even Larry Mahan, Hawkeye
Henson and Gary Leffew tried their dawned. This
made recruiting a three-man wild horse race almost
impossible. But cowboys know that tradition is tangible
and not wanting to lose a good event, they searched for
a new source of contestants. The local cowboy filled the
ranks and for years this ploy worked remarkably well.
But by the sixties, even cowboys wanting to enter the
wild horse race were becoming scarce and beginning to
dwindle.
In all of the Canadian and American rodeos at
the time, it was hard to find 20 wild horse races. But 53
contestants in a dusty horse barn at Cheyenne Frontier
Days refused to let the sport die. The year was 1973
and with the help of contractors, rodeo secretaries,
committees and contestants, a plan for the future
was engineered three directors elected and a general
statement of what the wild horse race should be was
established.
In 1976, this body of contestants petitioned the
PRCA (at the time it was still the RCA) for the authority
to govern and conduct the affairs of the wild horse race
event. This was granted and within five years a rulebook
was published, national champions were crowned,
a national finals was established and a full board of
directors steered a course for the future.
Today the Professional Wild Horse Racing
Association (once known as the Wild Horse Racers of
America) is organized and energetic. With a well-staffed
office in Madras, Oregon, trained judges, a responsible
secretary and a hard-working board of directors who
double as contestants, the level of competition continues
to intensify.
Wild Horse Racing cowboys tend to be one-event
specialists who love what they do. Ranches have become
fewer and the rodeo fan has become a city dweller, but
nothing has really changed.
Wild Horse Racers are still a part of rodeo and rodeo is
still a part of the American West.
Event Breakdown
The Wild Horse Race was one of the three original
events in rodeo during the late 1800’s. Ranch hands
would put a team together to compete against other
ranch teams. As a rodeo progressed, the team aspect
faded away.
It was too difficult to transport three men and
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Miniaturized version
The smaller version of the Wild Horse Race is the
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still make it profitable for rodeo. At that point in time,
the Wild Horse Race became more of a local event and
continued on that course until the mid 1970’s, when
a group of cowboys formed the Wild Horse Racers of
America, now called the Professional Wild Horse Racing
Association.
In the year 1981, the Professional Wild Horse
Racers held its first National Finals at the NILE Indoor
Arena in Billings, Montana. We feel at that time the
event was “born again.” This meant there would be
World Champions.
Many spectators have never witnessed a Wild
Horse Race, but those who have will never forget it. And
then there are some Wild Horse Race athletes that will
never forget it; if you dont’t believe the Buzz, just ask
Paul “Tippy” Siefert.
A Wild Horse Race Team consists of three
people, positions are known as shankman, mugger and
rider, and none of the positions are any easier than the
other. The equipment used is a lead shank, halter and
saddle. The winning team usually crosses the finish line
in 30-40 seconds, which other less fortunate teams may
take up to the 2 minute time limit.
The event is probably the most explosive, exciting
event in rodeo. The event is very unpredictable and very
western. Prepare yourself for the wildest event in rodeo!
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 OBITUARY
Andy Strommen
Andros Delton Strommen was
born on January 3rd, 1920 on the Saco
homestead in the wild rocky hills and
arrived at heaven’s pearly gates on July,
25th, 2019, surrounded by family.
Andy was born to Andrew
Mathias and Orl (Crance) Strommen
and raised with siblings Andresa,
Oris and Olaf. Andy and his siblings
were pivotal in the running of the
homestead from very early ages and
this is where he found his love for
hard work.
Andy started out his life without
electricity, running water and
automobiles. By age seven he drove a
team of horses, broke up coal for the
heater at school and washed clothes by
hand. He graduated from Saco High
School in 1937. He was drafted to
the US Army on April 6th, 1942 and
worked his way up to Staff Sergeant. He
worked in the Judge Advocate General’s
office and had hopes of continuing his
interest in law. Andy met and married
Elizabeth “Bette” Weier on November
17th, 1943 during his time in the army.
When his father passed away, the army
gave him a Service Necessity Discharge
for the Good of the Nation, and he
returned home to farm.
Andy and Bette were blessed with
three boys to complete their “ABC’s”
and named the El Cor Del bowling
alley after their children. While raising
the boys, Andy and Bette were busy
building a bowling alley in Opheim,
auctioneering, farming in five places,
starting a lumber yard, and creating
the Opheim Motor Company. Andy
was also the director of the Montana
Stock Growers Association, board
director of Hinsdale National Bank,
started an American Legion Club
in Saco, and ran a roulette table and
dealt blackjack for a few years. During
this time his boys started singing and
performing alongside their mother for
rodeos and fairs while Andy did the
announcing. Andy’s love of baseball
was instilled from a Chicago adventure
when he attended a Chicago Cubs
game and watched Dizzy Dean pitch
and eventually led him to manage the
town of Saco’s baseball team as well as
the little leaguers of Opheim. Andy
and Bette always lived in the area, with
the family moving from Saco to north
of Hinsdale, Opheim, Glasgow, and
finally to Vandalia in 1965.
Bette died on July 4th, 1976.
Andy continued his many trades and
ventured to Arizona in the winters
where he met Char. After a year of
flirtation at the laundromat, he and
Char were married on January 25th,
1986. The last 33 years with Char were
spent being more of the audience
member than the spotlight. Char kept
him 99 ½ years young. ?She took care
of him at home until the last weeks of
his life.
Andy was a man who enjoyed
many types of notoriety. Whether
it was writing to the President of the
United States on policies, getting
a patent on his bale wagon, being
the Grand Marshall for Saco Fun
Days, going to the school named
after Chet Huntley where his mother
taught, winning a bowling or card
tournament, co-hosting the Longest
Lanes Tournament at the Fort Peck
Spillway, playing the best pool player
in America, writing poetry for The
Army Times, or playing cards with
Doris Day.
Andy valued hard work and
appreciated seeing others work hard,
too. He wasn’t afraid to embrace
technology or change. He had many
accomplishments and accolades. He
loved a bountiful crop, a lucky hand
of cards, a well-placed bet and a good
drink. He loved his family even more.
In times of celebration and in times of
trial, whether it was a death or a much
needed rain, Andy kept his Faith. He
would often say, “It’s up to the Maker
above.”
In Andy’s words, “The first 100
years are the toughest, then it gets
easier.”
Andy was preceded in death by his
parents Andrew and Orl, his siblings
Andresa, Oris and Olaf, first wife
Elizabeth, son Delton, and daughter-
in-law Judy. He was also preceded in
death by many family members and
lifelong friends.
Andy is survived by his wife, Char,
his sons Corb Strommen and Eliot
(Penny) Strommen, daughter-in-law
Janice Strommen, and grandchildren
Tanya (Jason) Brown, Tate Strommen,
Justin (Amber) Strommen, Lucas
(Tara) Strommen, Christopher
(Jessica) Strommen, Jennie (Paul)
Yoakam, Annie (John) Thayer, and
Misti (Brent) Larson; and 23 great
grandchildren. He is also survived
by nephews, nieces, and extended
family members. Andy is survived by
his stepchildren Sherrea (Wes), Greg,
Shelly (Cliff), and Chad (Stacy) and
their families, as well as brother-in-law
Doug Jones.
Funeral service will be held
on Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 at 11:00
a.m. at the First Lutheran Church in
Glasgow. Burial will be in the Highland
Cemetery with a luncheon to follow at
the VFW.
In lieu of flowers, Andy’s family
graciously suggests memorials to the
American Legion, the Glasgow Elks
Lodge or the charity of one’s choice.