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    Rodeo
    Rodeo
    Rodeo
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    Rodeo

    By Maureen Meehan

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    "Rodeo, a Mary MacIntosh novel" is a fictional account of a female serial killer who preys on teenagers during the Sheridan WYO Rodeo in 2024. This novel delves into the history of Wyoming and professional rodeos in a fast-paced, gripping thrill ride with Mary MacIntosh ("Mac") as the prosecuting attorney to Wyoming's first female serial killer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaureen Meehan
    Release dateAug 27, 2024
    ISBN9798330369669
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      Rodeo - Maureen Meehan

      Chapter 1

      The Sheridan WYO Rodeo is full of history unique to this quintessential Western town located in the nook of the Bighorn Mountains as part of the Rocky Mountains. In 1926 and 1929, the event took place on the PK Ranch west of Sheridan. It proved people would come to a rodeo.    Nearly 20,000 people attended the show and there were 3,000 from 35 states.

      The first Sheridan WYO Rodeo was organized by a group of local citizens who wanted to put the small town of Sheridan on the map.  The first rodeo was a great success. The $15,000 purse brought professional contestants from all over the United States. A rodeo parade on the darling western downtown Main Street attracted thousands of spectators, and a carnival at the rodeo fairgrounds was in high fashion.

      Horses forever changed life on the Great Plains. They tip the balance of power in favor of mounted warriors, and they are prized as wealth.  For Native Americans, horses continue to endure as an emblem of tradition and a source of pageantry, pride, and healing.   

      Indian Relay races have an expansive history that has spanned hundreds of years, and it is considered one of the first sports created and is known as one of the oldest and most extreme sports in the nation. The relay has a rich history and the best of the best travel to compete against each other. This famous race is a way for teams to compete for cash and prizes. Teams consist of a three-man relay two holders and a mugger.  The race starts in front of the grandstands with a standing start.  The rider tries to take a three-step approach to mount each of the three horses per team. Racers make one lap around the track often changing first-place positions on numerous occasions which engages the crowds in loud roars and cheers. The rider changes horses three times in front of the grandstands using this three-step mount. The holders line the wall which can become dangerously entertaining as often the horses, riders, and holders collide, which causes huge excitement for the spectators.  Timers keep track of heats and the teams with the best times advance to the Championship race on Saturday night. These natives are extremely athletic in nature, and they train daily for these competitions. Crow, Cheyenne, Lakota, Sioux, Cheyenne, Shoshone, and other Indian tribes participate for prize money which can be as high as $100,000. The tribes ceremoniously smoke a peace pipe as part of the relay races.

      The Sheridan WYO Rodeo is well established as it is highly publicized.  E. W. Gollings was an artist commissioned to paint a picture for the first rodeo poster and the entire community of merchants helped support the rodeo committee to ensure the success. Bill Gollings Poster Marketing printed over 10,000 posters and given to folks on vacation to distribute all over the land and beyond.

      By 1932 Gladys Accola was selected as the first Sheridan WYO Rodeo queen.  This tradition remains a highly sought-after award in that these western cowgirl beauties were judged not only on their attractive appearance but also on their horsemanship skills inside the arena.  Barrel racing remains one of the high attractions of the night with cowgirls with extreme skill racing their respective horses

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      The rodeo was in remission during 1942 and 1943 due to World War II, but it resumed with gusto in 1944 and was rebranded the Bots Sots Stampede to invoke the memory of a series of rodeos in 1914 through 1916 later called the Sheridan Stampede.  Bots Sots is the Crown Indian term for very good and the term was used to advertise and promote the Sheridan Stampedes of years prior.  While there was still a rodeo, large Indian pageants were replaced by vaudevillian night shows.  The rodeo queen program was also reactivated, and the rodeo parade and carnival remained part of the weeklong event.

      The Sheridan WYO Rodeo remains a large player on the rodeo circuit and has a very competitive purse, attracting thousands of cowboys and cowgirls of all ages to this day. The town swells in half with pickup trucks pulling horse trailers parked around the fairgrounds for miles. 

      The Budweiser Clydesdales are transported to town attracting all ages to witness them parade through the town with the glamor and fame that accompanies them. The rodeo parade is attended by nearly all residents of this incredible small town and there are competitions such as the bed races on the hill at the end of Main Street. 

      Folks build a bed on wheels and decorate the bed to the nines allowing the team to jump aboard the often rickety mobile to gain enormous speed down the hill and onto Main Street. 

      The parade attracts rodeo queens from all over the West in addition to clowns driving tiny cars and floats with people playing music and throwing candy to the crowds lining Main Street.  Native tribes dress in regalia and ride highly decorated horses downtown while waving to fans from all corners of the country.

      The carnival includes rides for all ages as well as a haunted house and clowns with magic tricks. This event is held in July every summer and tends to be hot. Families often attend the parade followed by the carnival and then cap off the evening watching the rodeo from the grandstands. It is the it event for the summer and people look forward to it every year. It starts on Wednesday and goes through Sunday evening, which is the finale.

      There are street dances in the evening on Main Street attracting country musicians and folks often cap off the night at the famous Mint Bar.

      The Mint Bar is iconic in Sheridan and has been in existence since 1932. It is nearly impossible to paint a picture of this place with gorgeous old-school woodwork, animal heads taxidermy, and hanging from the walls.  These creatures include bison, elk, deer, owls, falcons, rabbits, antelope, and about a 13-foot rattlesnake skin crowning the bar.  It is the oldest bar in town and people would be slighted if they had never visited this place.

      The Sheridan WYO Rodeo is a must-see for anyone visiting the great state of Wyoming.  Most people do not realize that the Suffrage Movement started in Wyoming which is the state where women were first granted the right to vote in the United States.

      Wyoming is the home of the glorious Yellowstone National Park which is also the first national park in the land.  There are so many wonderful things about Wyoming including the majestic Tetons in the Jackson Hole area near Yellowstone National Park as well as numerous other mountain chains with peaks over 13,000 feet. The Tetons are the home to Jackson Hole Ski Resort outside of Jackson Hole and are one of the best places to ski in the world.

      The Sheridan WYO Rodeo attracts all kinds of people – from cowboys and cowgirls to Native Americans to spectators and carnies who run the carnival.  It is a conglomeration of people from all walks of life and swells the town once a year with all sorts.

      It is the setting of a tragic set of events that occurred in the summer of 2024 and will go down in U.S. history as one of the worst serial killings in the country.

      Chapter 2

      Up until the summer of 2024, John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township near Chicago, Illinois, He became

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