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骑乘在无鞍野马上的人是柯林顿史威特(Clinton
Sweet )，
福特兰森竞技场(Fort
Ransom Arena)，1990年代中期
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福特兰森(Fort
Ransom)农夫协会：拓荒者的生活
地方性遗产
假如您对1900年代的农场生活曾心生猜想，只要去一趟北达科他州的福特兰森州立公园(Fort
Ransom State Park)，参加它所举办的为期两天的农夫日，您就能大概了解当时的农场生活了。
福特兰森农夫协会位于北达科他州的福特兰森，协会宗旨在于庆祝及保存在地的拓荒者生活，另外也负责组织农夫日及其他的年度马术竞技会。
农夫日时，游客可以看到使用电力前的农场生活。他们可以观看现场的谷物处理、锯木头及使用唧筒抽水的示范秀。他们也可以观赏工作中的铁匠，亲眼看看如何把轮辋加装到四辆马车的轮子上。农夫日的活动上还展示了早期拓荒者时代的常规艺术品、工艺品及食物，游客可以学习如何缝制棉被及制造肥皂。
在马术竞技会上，男牛仔及女牛仔会参加的项目包括了套小牛、无鞍骑乘野马或野牛及追牛扳倒。在套小牛这项竞赛中，竞赛者必须在最短的时间内，将小牛的三只脚捆绑起来。而在骑乘项目中，骑者必须设法在野牛或野马(未被驯服的马儿，它们不但会抗拒训练，还会猛然跳起并把背上的骑士摔下地)背上停留八秒钟。这就是照片中的骑士想要做到的事！
If you've ever wondered what it would have been like to live on a farm in the early 1900s, you could get a good idea by going to Sodbuster Days, a two-day event held at Fort Ransom State Park in North Dakota.
The Fort Ransom Sodbusters Association, an organization that celebrates and preserves pioneer life in Fort Ransom, North Dakota, organizes Sodbuster Days and an annual rodeo.
During Sodbuster Days visitors can see what farm life was like before electricity. They can watch demonstrations of elevating grain, sawing wood, grinding corn, and pumping water. They can also watch blacksmiths at work and see how a rim is put on a wagon wheel. Traditional arts, crafts and foods from pioneer life are also exhibited. Visitors can learn about quilting and soap-making.
In the rodeo, cowboys and cowgirls participate in calf roping, bull or bronco riding, and steer wrestling. In calf roping, the contestant has to rope up three of a calf's feet as fast as he or she can. In the riding events, one has to stay on the bull or bronco (an "unbroken" horse that resists training and bucks, or throws, its rider) for eight seconds. That's what the rider in the photograph is attempting to do!
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