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With life as her stage, Marylou Whitney needs no script and no direction in performing her many roles, from party-goer to party thrower, to bear skinner and artist, to international socialite and philanthropist to horse breeder. In all her endeavors, from Alaska to the Adirondacks, Mrs. C.V. Whitney is recognized simply as ‘Marylou.’”
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Joni Harms wears dozens of hats, but they all are the wide brimmed, high crowned Western style. The award winning Country/Western singer/song writer plays the role of wife, mother, daughter, homemaker, cowgirl and farmer, all while commuting back and forth from her home in Canby, Oregon to Nashville to promote her career.”
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 Michele Bertmark, French to the bone, is on the ‘cutting edge’ when it comes to American Quarter Horses. Wearing Wrangler jeans, cowboy boots and chaps and using a saddle crafted in Texas, Michele looks as if she’s just stepped out of the Old West. Except, of course, that she addresses the calves ‘Allez les belles,’ rather than ‘get along little doggies.’”
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 ‘Right this way folks, through this little trapdoor. I can keep you out of trouble.’ Uncle Johnny reassures the patrons of Madame Stella Darby’s Cozy Rooms, as police raid the bordello.”
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 Hamley & Co. is off the Endangered Species List just in time to celebrate its centennial year. The earthy smell of saddle leather, ropes and rawhide, once again permeates this 100 year old landmark in Pendleton, Oregon.
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 Calgary has its character, Cheyenne has its sashay, but there’s only one Pendleton, Oregon --- only one Round-Up --- where the indomitable buckaroo spirit reigns supreme. It started out as a small bronc riding contest and roping exhibition held amid fields of wheat and barley, to celebrate the end of harvest. Today it lives on as the most famous rodeo in the Northwest, rivaling Calgary and Cheyenne in magnitude. The Pendleton Round-Up, Pendleton, Oregon, kicks into high gear the second full week of September. Just the thought of it summons images of the rugged Northwest in the best romantic light.” |
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 “We want people to know about our history from our perspective, says Bobbie Conner (Umatilla, Cayuse, Nez Perce) director of the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute in Pendleton, Oregon. The Institute includes a research library, a museum shop that offers Native American music, books by and about Native Americans, Pendleton Woolen Mills Cayuse Blankets (sold only in the store) and Plateau tribal arts, crafts and jewelry……The importance of place will be recreated in the Living Cultural Village opening May, 2005. People will be able to smell, hear, and taste our culture,” says Wenix Red Elk, (Cayuse/Walla Walla) village director.”
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 A hundred years ago, it was a common sight: herds of cattle being maneuvered by cowboys and a dog to better pasture or fresh water. The land was open and unfenced, with no freeways or urban sprawl—only Juniper trees, sage brush and fresh running streams. Times have changed, but history has been immortalized in Michael Booth’s larger-than-life cement sculpture featuring nine Hereford cows, two cowboys mounted on Paint horses and a Border Collie.” |
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