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騎乘在無鞍野馬上的人是柯林頓史威特(Clinton
Sweet )，
福特蘭森競技場(Fort
Ransom Arena)，1990年代中期
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福特蘭森(Fort
Ransom)農夫協會：拓荒者的生活
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假如您對1900年代的農場生活曾心生猜想，只要去一趟北達科他州的福特蘭森州立公園(Fort
Ransom State Park)，參加它所舉辦的為期兩天的農夫日，您就能大概瞭解當時的農場生活了。
福特蘭森農夫協會位於北達科他州的福特蘭森，協會宗旨在於慶祝及保存在地的拓荒者生活，另外也負責組織農夫日及其他的年度馬術競技會。
農夫日時，遊客可以看到使用電力前的農場生活。他們可以觀看現場的穀物處理、鋸木頭及使用唧筒抽水的示範秀。他們也可以觀賞工作中的鐵匠，親眼看看如何把輪輞加裝到四輛馬車的輪子上。農夫日的活動上還展示了早期拓荒者時代的傳統藝術品、工藝品及食物，遊客可以學習如何縫製棉被及製造肥皂。
在馬術競技會上，男牛仔及女牛仔會參加的項目包括了套小牛、無鞍騎乘野馬或野牛及追牛扳倒。在套小牛這項競賽中，競賽者必須在最短的時間內，將小牛的三隻腳綑綁起來。而在騎乘項目中，騎者必須設法在野牛或野馬(未被馴服的馬兒，它們不但會抗拒訓練，還會猛然跳起並把背上的騎士摔下地)背上停留八秒鐘。這就是照片中的騎士想要做到的事！
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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