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Hoot Gibson at Baker Ranch Rodeo
Saugus, California

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Cowboy actor and trick roper Hoot Gibson greets spectators at the Baker Ranch Rodeo in 1928. He would purchase the rodeo arena two years later. Eventually it came to be known as the Saugus Speedway.

Picture from 18 minutes of film shot by Clyde Hamilton Smyth, father of high school superintendent and Santa Clarita mayor Hamilton Clyde Smyth, Ph.D. The elder Smyth was at one time a bronco buster on the rodeo circuit.

(Note: Views are very similar.)

Films contributed to the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society by Dr. H. Clyde Smyth.

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