100 Years of Lake County Round-Up: Eight Seconds of Heaven and Hell

For seven harried weeks in the late summer of 1920 a group of ranchers and business owners rushed to bring a wild west rodeo on a grand scale never before accomplished in their area to the folks of Lake County and the surrounding countryside. They were successful beyond their wildest collective dreams. Labor Day weekend, in September 2019, will be the 100th consecutive rodeo held in Lakeview, Lake County, Oregon. “Where there are steeds, there must be cowboys … Bill Raymond and Pat McCartie put in an appearance the other day and these veterans say there won’t be enough horses to go around with the boys coming from all over the country. A dozen or more drifted in last week. Jesse Stahl … pulled in the other day and is wrangling horses for some outfit while he waits for the show. Everything at the arena is in top shape for the show.”  — Lake County Examiner, August 25, 1927.   “The cowboys get a square deal at Lakeview.”   — Lake County Examiner, August 20, 1930. The show at Lakevi