DUDE RANCH SPORTS

hi you folks this is Bill Stern with another thrilling story from the World of Sports Phoenix Airport our constellations of the sky bring the easterner to the romantic and colorful West was once Wild and Woolly it's less time than breakfast to afternoon te from any spot in the United States to the capital of the Dude Ranch Country in Old Arizona apartment house cliff dwellers from the city Pavements with the Yen for the Wide Open Spaces are sure of a hearty Western welcome because dudes are big business there are4 dude ranches in Arizona alone the neighboring Southwestern States bring the total to something like 500 out here the West begins with a stage coach ride that's right out of the pages of dead eyy [Music] dick the trails which are so historic have been the background for many a movie the drivers who meet you aren't likely to be from the corner of Hollywood and Vine but real honest to goodness cow hands who give with the howdy ma'am but who know how to handle doggies as well as dudes well aboard partner we got a heap of traveling to do before Sundown there are two kinds of dude ranches those that are regular working ranches where the chief business is cattle those whose main industry is catering to guests in either case you're like to define magnificent stretches of mountain scenery with the clearest air and the most colorful skies in the world with vast stretches of breathless and beautiful Silence with the famous and luxurious Rancho de los cavaleros in the wienberg area some 50 Mi west of Phoenix a real working cattle ranch it lies in the brooding shadow of vulture Peak from which renowned Vulture Mine took its name strange species of shrub and Cactus wonderfully exotic when in Blossom that the desert plains that lie in the Valley of the Sun with arms like huge semaphores standing guard over the loneliness of the desert this is the most familiar of all species of Cactus thanks to Western movies when it comes to Sport and exercise the Dude Ranch gives it to you with variations you can't find at the ordinary vacation spot and there's plenty of room to spread out if you're in condition for it you can ride all day long although the most comfortable way to work is to get up to it gradually you don't have to be Buffalo Bill because your cowboy host will give you something you can ride even if you never been on a hobby horse and you'll get seen with your sport there's just about everything except the seashore and the 45,000 Acres of Los cavaleros 45,000 Acres that's 2 and 1/2 times bigger than Manhattan Island purple mountain ranges rolling across the desert where the warlike Apaches and the navajos once made their stand against the encroachment of the white man civilization Trails over which the 49ers rode to California and the Gold Country with Kit Carson and John Fremont the Pathfinder you ride the trails of history and tradition we're heading for the Hills right now along the trail which Old Henry Wickenberg took on his prospecting venture to vulture Mountain back in the 1860s town of wienberg takes its name from the famous minor who staked out the claim which paid out more than $20 million in the years during which it was worked it's far more valuable even than that today because has as an authentic reminder of the fabulous West its prime draw refugees from Subways and City Pavements right now we're about half a mile above sea level and coming to the entrance to Vulture Mine it's estimated that a couple of thousand tourists in Levis and high heel boots ride up here every year to commune with the ghosts of bygone adventurers whose Cry of gold made the west of magnet for the get rich quick boys of a century ago time out for ch Chuck Wagon style cooked over an open fire it's not so cramped as a kitchenet for the gals and just the thing for the guy with a city breed ERS the bracing desert and Mountain Air plus the exercise and the good company give a man appetite enough to eat a horse that is you'd eat a horse if you didn't have to ride it back out here all three squares a day are more than merely meals it gets so they're a real sporting proposition water water a whole swimming pool full of it in the middle of the desert with mermaid Jet by an old desert RIT swear he was seeing them arise all the luxuries of any vacation resort only here in the Valley of the Sun you can swim Outdoors like this all year [Music] round shuffle board on a deck of a ship in the desert no doubt probably for those who dislike just sitting after the long morning ride there's sport for those who like the Net game too no matter what time of year you're pretty sure not to be rained out since they average 320 sunshiny days every year talk about variety of sports they sure mix it up at L cavaleros and another one bites the dust just the thing to keep your shooting irons from Rusty there hasn't been so much shooting since the engine Wars now who said West is West and East is East and never the twain shall meet they run smack into each other here in the middle of the desert at wienberg Country Club just two hoops and a holler from Lush cavaleros and here's a switch the horse is the caddy another Pat car it's grass all the way around Green Bush grass in the middle of the Arizona desert Cowboy keep your eye on that ball Which Way Ma'am why that away every week the dude ranchers in the wienberg area get together with a paying customers and put on a real Roundup with buck and Brun ride and an all the wild west triming of course you don't have to go in for any of the events if you prefer to sit on the rail with me now here's a guest event for the Cowboys and gals from the corner drugstore one length to the Corral dismounting and leading the horse back to the starting line and just a week ago they were running for the downtown bus whoever loses can blame it on the horse last one backs a darn [Music] dude a big hand for pretty Patty Allen daughter of the ranch Foreman at l cabera she performs in the Big Time Rodeo circuit and uses her earnings to pay her College tuition here's Patty's mom Mrs Gan Allen she's been riding like this in rodeos for 15 years sure keeps a g young which Jean is under 35 here's daughter again a real G of the Golden West she certainly has learned a lot from hanging on horses look at this and after all you've heard about hanging onto a horse with your knees you can't teach everyone to Ride Like That some just don't believe the horse is here to stay you know this horse doesn't believe this Rider's here to stay there are hands some other ranches besides caballeras all famous in the Dude Ranch business MAV Vista KL bar/ bar k looks like that wrangler's on to stay until some console helps him off that's what you call teamwork he made it just in time it's not always Fast and Furious that their C Critter for instance if he doesn't exactly stop the show he sure slows it down to a walk hey this Buckaroo is having a tough time with that little doggy there that little fell doesn't know when he's licked here's one sport that always ends up in a tie for the city F or fellow with a Yen for a real sporting vacation there's nothing Wide Open Spaces in the Dude Ranch capital of the world the guys in the office start yakity yaking about the fish that Got Away brother you can just sit back and tell him the TR one about the bull that got away [Music]