070214_TalesfromTread_t670In the days before Steamboat Springs had a rodeo arena, Routt County’s earliest cowboys often had to rope calves and “break” horses that were not keen on humans riding on their backs.

These early rodeo precursors most often took place on the ranches where the cowboys worked but also on the wide, accommodating Main Street of Steamboat Springs…

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