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Bear Paw Meanderings

We have come a long way in the celebrating of the Fourth of July in this neck of the woods.

It used to be that homesteaders would fire a gun out the front door of their houses early in the morning of the 4th and that would be their celebration of the Independence of the United States.

After that was the time of the grand rodeos, some of which linger to this day. For years and years the Fourth of July Rodeo at Warrick, on the south side of the Bear Paw Mountains was the place to be. I have talked to many old time cowboys who went on to do great things in rodeo and to a person, they said that th...