Earl W. Bascom

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Earl Wesley Bascom (June 19, 1906 – August 28, 1995) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, cowboy, rodeo performer, inventor, and Hollywood actor.

Raised in Canada, he portrayed in works of fine art, his own experiences of cowboying and rodeoing across the American and Canadian West.

Bascom was awarded the Pioneer Award by the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2016 and inducted into several halls of fame including the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1984.

Bascom was called the "Cowboy of Cowboy Artists," the "Dean of Rodeo Cowboy Sculpture" and the "Father of Modern Rodeo."

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Cowboy career

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Bascom's life was a combination of ranch life and cowboy life. "I know a cowboy's life and the West," he said. Bascom worked on some of the country's biggest horse and cattle ranches, including ranches that raised thousands of cattle on a million square kilometers (2000 km2) of property. Hundreds of horses have been broken and taught, including horses. In Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Wyoming, Montana, Mississippi, Washington, California, and western Canada, he worked on ranches where he chased and gathered horses, cows, and even donkeys. He worked on cattle drives out of the Rockies and horseback rides through the Teton Range. He was involved in large roundups of horses and cattle, as well as branding. He made saddles and stirrups, quirts, chaps, bridles and bits, ropes and pieces, and even patched his own boots. The Earl's brothers and their father, John W. Bascom, were all experienced ranch hands and professional horsemen who were known as the "Bronc Bustin' Bascom Boys."

Bascom, a professional rodeo cowboy, rodeo rodeo internationally, rodeoing from 1916 to 1940, where he won several all-around championships. He competed in the tough stock competitions of saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, and bull riding, as well as the timed events of steer decorating and steer wrestling. He set a new arena record, a new world record time, and secured third place in the world rankings in the steer decorating competition in 1933. He also served as a rodeo announcer, did trick riding, and competed in the rodeo championships of wild cow milking and wild horse racing.

Bascom has been inducted into several rodeo, cowboy, and sports Halls of Fame in Canada and the United States. He has been recognized around the world for his rodeo equipment inventions and designs. Earl's brothers, Raymond "Tommy" Bascom, Melvin "High Pockets" Bascom, and their father John W. Bascom, were both professional rodeo cowboys and Hall of Fame inductees, as well as their father John W. Bascom. Earl Bascom's college education at Brigham Young University, where he was dubbed "Rodeo's First Collegiate Cowboy" and from which university he graduated in 1940. Rodeoing paid for Earl Bascom's college education at Brigham Young University.

Bascom has been named "the founder of Modern Rodeo" and "rodeo's best explorer and entrepreneur." He is best known for creating and constructing rodeo's modern bucking chute in 1916 and 1919, which was upgraded in rodeo history. He made rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle in 1922 and rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging in 1924, for which he has been dubbed the "Father of Rodeo Bareback Riding" and "Father of Rodeo Bareback Riding." In 1926, he invented and produced the modern rodeo riding chaps, and in 1928, he introduced a rodeo exerciser made of spring steel. Bascom has been recognized internationally by rodeo organizations for his rodeo inventions.

Earl and his brother Weldon produced the first rodeos in Columbia, Mississippi, 1936, 1936, 1937, while working for Sam Hickman's B Bar H Ranch near Arm, Mississippi. This first rodeo in Columbia is known as the first rodeo to be held outside at night under electric lights in cowboy history. A official Mississippi State Historical Marker was unveiled and dedicated in March 2019 in commemoration of Columbia's birth for 200 years.

A new rodeo arena was constructed in Mississippi in 1936 under Earl Bascom's direction, which used his plans.

The bucking horses used in the rodeo were delivered from West Texas. Sam Hickman and Earl Bascom travelled to New Orleans to purchase brahma bulls for the rodeo bucking stock. This was the first recorded use of brahma bulls in rodeo. These rodeos were funded by Sam Hickman's Wild West Rodeo Company.

Earl was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mississippi from 1936 to 1937, and was on staff with Mission President LeGrand Richards of the Southern States Mission. The Bascom brothers were lauded fifty years later for their role as the "Fathers of Mississippi Rodeo" and were given the "Key to the City of Columbia," as part of President Ronald Reagan's congratulatory telegram. The ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2016 named Earl Bascom and his brother Weldon as the "Fathers of Brahma Bull Riding."

Bascom married Nadine Diffey in 1939. She was of American Indian origins, and she was a descendant of Pocahantas' sister. Chief Powhatan of the Pamunkey Tribe, Chief Long Knife of the Mohawks, Chief Mattabesetts of the Montauketts, and Chief Tatobem of the Pequots are among her ancestors. She descended from the Croatan, Creek, and Catawba tribes. Earl and Nadine met in Mississippi while riding horses and rodeoing there. They were married in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised five children. Nadine Bascom, an artist of floral arrangement, painting, and sculpture, created several bas-relief sculptures.

Bascom tried his hand as a rodeo clown and rodeo bullfighter during his rodeo career, in addition to being a professional rodeo contestant. Earl was named as the world's oldest living rodeo clown on his 89th birthday.

Bascom, an 88-year-old boy, assisted in the round-up of longhorn steers on the Shahan Ranch in west Texas, receiving awards for his art during the 1994 Texas Longhorn Quincentennial Cattle Drive and Celebration. Bascom's bronze sculpture The American Longhorn Steer was proclaimed the most authentic example of a classical Texas longhorn steer, 1494-1994.

Bascom was honoured posthumously on the tenth anniversary of the National Day of the Cowboy in 2014 for his contributions to cowboy history and the cowboy way of life.

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