The first riding and roping contest I ever attended was given by Buffalo Bill Cody at North Platte, Nebraska, where I was born in 1876. It was the Fourth of July, 1882, and, according to all reports I have read, it was the first contest ever recorded. I went to the contest with my mother and her sister, Aunt Clara Hopkins. I was a small boy just six years old so don't remember too much about it. I do remember there was a lot of lumber wagons, spring wagons, buggies, and saddle horses there. I remember Buffalo Bill telling the...

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