TY  - BOOK
AU  - La Mar,Bud
TI  - The bar act
T2  - Produced from the September 25, 1928 issue of Short Stories magazine
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Western stories
KW  - Cowboys -- Fiction
KW  - Texas -- Fiction
KW  - Rodeos -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2026-03-04; Prepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net); Originally published; New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928
N2  - The bar act by Bud La Mar is a Western short story written in the late 1920s. The tale explores a rodeo trick-riding contest upended by a mysterious new stunt dubbed “the Bar Act,” focusing on rivalry, ingenuity, and showmanship among hard-pressed cowboys.

Leonard Carter, a celebrated trick rider known for unveiling last-minute stunts, alarms his rivals when the program lists his new “Bar Act.” They attempt to spy on him, only to be decoyed on a grueling night chase to a graveyard. At the show, Carter dazzles with standard tricks, then bolts a Ford axle to his saddle and spins on it at full gallop, electrifying the crowd. His competitors scramble to copy him with improvised bars—a windmill handle and a broomstick—and even a stolen trick rope, resulting in falls, a broken broomstick, and one rider injured during another stunt. After the uproar, the judges rule the Bar Act non-cowboy and exclude it, awarding first to a rival whose conventional riding held up, while Carter, having gambled on his invention and eased off elsewhere, loses out. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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ER  -