The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 52, July 1948 - April, 1949 Page: 237
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tion receive credit for antique collecting in one phase or another.
Among those mentioned are Karl Hoblitzelle, E. L. DeGolyer,
Miss Ima Hogg, George P. Isbell, Colonel M. L. Crimmins, and
Miss Winnie Allen.
John King Beretta, a long-time member of the Association
and an authority on much of the early Anglo-American history
of San Antonio, died on Monday, June 21, 1948. He was born
in Arkansas in 1861 and came to Texas in 1873. His long career
in banking and finance coupled with his many public services
made him one of the distinguished citizens of the state. He was
a member of the Board of Control for Texas Centennial Cele-
brations, 1936-1939. Throughout many years he maintained a
personal interest in the affairs of the Association.
The Quarterly for January, 1945, carried a note by Carl Studer
of Canadian, Texas, entitled "The First Rodeo in Texas." Studer
dated the beginning of the rodeo as 1888. Mrs. O. L. Shipman
writes from El Paso to state that Pecos, Texas, claims the begin-
ning of the rodeo, dating its beginning to the summer of 1883.
Mrs. Shipman further says:
It all started in a Pecos saloon sixty-five years ago when cowpunchers
from the Hash Knife, 101o Ranch, and other outfits got into an
argument as to which outfit's hands were actually worthy of their
cowboy titles. It was finally agreed that a contest would be the only
way to reach a fair decision. Land now occupied by the Pecos Com-
munity Center, Civic Auditorium, and the Texas Highway Patrol
office was designated as the site for the contest which was to be the
world's "Rodeo."
If it is possible, the actual and absolute beginnings of the
rodeo, the significant spectacle of ranch life, ought to be deter-
mined without question.
A further communication from Mrs. Shipman calls attention
to the fact that the Encyclopaedia Britannica recognizes the Pecos
claim of 1883 as the beginning of the rodeo.
From Herbert Fletcher's column, Bibliomania, in the Daily237
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