Bascom Brothers Rodeo Bareback Riggin ‘

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This riggin’ was found by me in Pomona Ca.in  2003 at an old antique store in the old Kress building on antique row pictured in picture 5 . I competed in the National Police Rodeo in that area and knew of the Bascom name and saw this early rig in a glass case , I got the clerk to pull it out and remember shaking reading the name . It has come time to show this for sale ! I have contacted the family about this and have said I would list it to see its value . Here is a bit from history -In 1994, Bascom was commissioned to design a rodeo belt buckle for the National Finals to commemorate the 70th year of the rodeo bareback rigging which Bascom had designed and made back in 1924. We are not saying this rig is the one . The production manager said, "Bascom's buckle was one of our most popular pieces and the most historical."[101] this obviously is an early rig with(Earl) Wesley and (Frank)Weldon’s names carved in it . 2019 marks the 95th year of rodeo’s one-hand bareback rigging and the 100th year of the modern rodeo bucking chute. Rodeo pioneer and Utah cowboy, Earl W. Bascom, thought up, designed and made rodeo’s one-handed rigging in 1924 and the side-opening bucking chute in 1919.
Bascom’s rigging and his bucking chute have since become standard pieces of equipment at rodeos around the world.
Before Bascom’s inventions, rodeo contestants were riding bareback broncs using two hands holding the horse’s mane or using a two-hand rigging and the bucking chutes were variations of the “shotgun” chute.
Bascom, who was born in Vernal in 1906, but was raised in Canada, gained fame as a rodeo champion in Canada and the United States and received international recognition for his rodeo equipment designs.
At the age of 10, in 1916, Bascom started participating in rodeos. He not only competed in, but won championships in the three roughstock events of saddle bronc, bareback and steer or bull riding, plus the timed events of steer decorating and steer wrestling.
He made his first side-opening bucking chute in 1916 while on the Bascom Ranch in Welling Station, Alberta, Canada. In 1919, on the family ranch in the Lethbridge area, Bascom redesigned his bucking chute to a reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute which has become the standard of modern-day rodeo.
For bareback bronc riding, Bascom made and used a variety of riggings before designing and making his own one-hand rigging in 1924, on the family ranch in Stirling, Alberta, Canada.
To do it, he took a section of rubber belting discarded from a threshing machine and cut out the entire rigging in one piece. The handhold was folded back and riveted to the main body of the rigging with dee rings riveted to each side for the latigos.
This rigging became rodeo’s first one-hand bareback rigging when it was used in 1924, at the Raymond Stampede in Alberta, Canada.
That same year, Bascom refined his design making another rigging out of leather and rawhide. With sole leather for the rigging body and strips of leather with rawhide sewn between for the handhold, it had sheepskin glued under the handhold to protect the rider’s knuckles.
In the late 1930s, when the Cowboy Turtle Association (forerunner of today’s ProRodeo Cowboys Association) was formed, “Bascom’s Rigging” was made the official pattern.
Variations of Bascom’s rigging of 1924 and his bucking chute of 1919 have since become world-wide rodeo standards, used at rodeos in North America, Central America, South America, from Hawaii to Japan, New Zealand and Australia, as well as in Europe and South Africa.
Offsprings of Bascom’s bareback riggings and bucking chutes were part of the narrative and history of the recent Canadian Finals Rodeo, Indian National Finals Rodeo, European Finals Rodeo, South African Rodeo Finals, New Zealand Finals Rodeo, Australian Finals Rodeo, as well as the on-going National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The bareback riding event has been part of the National Finals Rodeo since the “Super Bowl of Rodeo” began in 1958.
After his rodeo career, Bascom became internationally acclaimed as an artist and sculptor known as the “Dean of Rodeo Cowboy Sculpture,” being the first professional rodeo cowboy to become a professional cowboy artist and sculptor.
Earl Bascom passed away in 1995 and has since been recognized by rodeo associations as far away as Australia and Europe, and honored by several international halls of fame including the Canadian ProRodeo Hall of Fame and the ProRodeo Cowboys Association.
Bascom’s grandfather, C.F.B. Lybbert was one of the early Danish settlers of Spring City.

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