St. Paul, Oregon,is a small town (421 people according to the 2010 census) in the Willamette valley, named after the Saint Paul Mission founded by future archbishop François Norbert Blanchet, sent in 1838 to minister to the French Canadian/Métis inhabitants, who were mostly former employees of the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1836 they had built a log church near this locale and, over the next two years, petitioned the bishop of Juliopolis in the Red River Colony (modern Winnipeg, Canada) to send a priest. By 1843, approximately 100 French Canadian/Métis families lived on the prairie. In 1839 Blanche blessed the church and dedicated it to St. Paul at the first mass held in the territory. The St. Paul Roman Catholic Church was built in 1846, the oldest brick building in the Pacific Northwest, the year the 49th parallel as the border between the US and British North America; the US organized the Oregon Territory in 1848. The St. Paul Rodeo has been held every 4th of July since 1935; one of the 20 largest rodeos in the US, it was voted by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association as the finest one in the Pacific Northwest in 1991. With prize monies approaching $500,000 and nearly 1,000 competitors, it is one of the few (10 or so) rodeos designated as a Wrangler Million Dollar Tour Gold Rodeo. In addition to rodeo activities, the 5-day event includes a Wild West art show, carnival rides, and nightly fireworks in its own 10,500-seat arena. Every summer, the Professional Bull Riders holds a minor-league, Touring Pro Division event there. "Rodeo" entered the English language ca. 1834 to refer to a cattle round-up, derived from the Spanish verb "rodear" ("to surround" or "go around," referring to a pen for cattle at a fair or market). In Spanish America a rodeo was the process that vaqueros used by to gather cattle for various purposes, such as moving them to new pastures, separating the herds owned by different ranchers, or gathering them in preparation for slaughter, though the term was also used to refer to exhibitions of skills used in the working rodeo. This evolved from these yearly gatherings where festivities were held and horsemen could demonstrate their equestrian skills. It was this latter usage which was adopted into the cowboy tradition of the United States and Canada. Today the word is used primarily to refer to a public exhibition of cowboy skills, usually in the form of a competitive event, based on the tasks required for cattle ranching. Early rodeo-like affairs were held in the western United States and northern Mexico in the 1820s and 1830s, but the first formal rodeo competition was held in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1872; the first professional one was in Prescott, Arizona, in 1888. In the early years they were often combined with Wild West shows. Organized rodeo associations began forming in 1929, which began the standardization of events.
St. Paul, Oregon,is a small town (421 people according to the 2010 census) in the Willamette valley, named after the Saint Paul Mission founded by future archbishop François Norbert Blanchet, sent in 1838 to minister to the French Canadian/Métis inhabitants, who were mostly former employees of the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1836 they had built a log church near this locale and, over the next two years, petitioned the bishop of Juliopolis in the Red River Colony (modern Winnipeg, Canada) to send a priest. By 1843, approximately 100 French Canadian/Métis families lived on the prairie. In 1839 Blanche blessed the church and dedicated it to St. Paul at the first mass held in the territory. The St. Paul Roman Catholic Church was built in 1846, the oldest brick building in the Pacific Northwest, the year the 49th parallel as the border between the US and British North America; the US organized the Oregon Territory in 1848. The St. Paul Rodeo has been held every 4th of July since 1935; one of the 20 largest rodeos in the US, it was voted by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association as the finest one in the Pacific Northwest in 1991. With prize monies approaching $500,000 and nearly 1,000 competitors, it is one of the few (10 or so) rodeos
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In addition to rodeo activities, the 5-day event includes a Wild West art show, carnival rides, and nightly fireworks in its own 10,500-seat arena. Every summer, the Professional Bull Riders holds a minor-league, Touring Pro Division event there. "Rodeo" entered the English language ca. 1834 to refer to a cattle round-up, derived from the Spanish verb "rodear" ("to surround" or "go around," referring to a pen for cattle at a fair or market). In Spanish America a rodeo was the process that vaqueros used by to gather cattle for various purposes, such as moving them to new pastures, separating the herds owned by different ranchers, or gathering them in preparation for slaughter, though the term was also used to refer to exhibitions of skills used in the working rodeo. This evolved from these yearly gatherings where festivities were held and horsemen could demonstrate their equestrian skills. It was this latter usage which was adopted into the cowboy tradition of the United States and Canada. Today the word is used primarily to refer to a public exhibition of cowboy skills, usually in the form of a competitive event, based on the tasks required for cattle ranching. Early rodeo-like affairs were held in the western United States and northern Mexico in the 1820s and 1830s, but the first formal rodeo competition was held in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1872; the first professional one was in Prescott, Arizona, in 1888. In the early years they were often combined with Wild West shows. Organized rodeo associations began forming in 1929, which began the standardization of events.