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Bulldogging, 1924
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11 B U l l D O G G I N G , 1 9 2 4 a final muscled twist of the horn and he falls, wrestled and wrangled, bulldogged to his back. His hooves assault the air for leverage and flail around, defeated by a loss of sturdy ground. a wild Wyoming wind bellows from the snorting, slobbering nostrils of the beaten bull while Foxy Hastings, Queen of the Cowgirls, shakes her stringy ringlets, wet with sweat and bull snot, and drives her boots deep into the dirt arena, deep into this rodeo, and, bracing herself against convention, raises a mud-caked hand. The weathered cowboy shifts his weight and squirms on the fence rail, then tips his stetson brim in buckaroo salute. she rises, bruised and limping, slaps the mucus from her chaps, and Hippolyta’s unfolding shadow stretches across the ages from her jingling spurs; the shaken bull stands and stumbles, looks around, as if the world had lost its balance. ...