The Livingston (Mont.) Roundup Rodeo, held one hour outside Yellowstone National Park, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this week.
The event started in 1924 when Charlie Murphy, who organized the Madison Square Garden Rodeo in New York City, decided to sanction a rodeo in the shadow of the world's first national park.
"Even back in the 1920s, they were looking at the tourist dollar," Livingston Roundup Rodeo Committee Chairman Bruce Becker told the ProRodeo Sports News. "Most of the people driving back then had Model-A or Model-Ts. But they were a group of far-sighted businessmen that said, 'let's put on a rodeo and attract people to the area.'"
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