![]() ![]() “Bish was big on families so he emphasized that the club was for families from the start,” said Paulick. It also included youth members from the beginning. It was the first club to include both male and female riders in the same organization. The club started out different from other riding clubs in Utah. He walked several blocks to Ida White’s house, the club’s secretary, and paid her 50 cents so he could join. Paulick read about the new riding club in the Transcript-Bulletin shortly after it was organized. There were more horses in people’s backyards than cars in the front yards, according to Stew Paulick, who still has horses in his backyard on Tooele City’s Vine Street. “So he came up with this idea of organizing a riding club.” “There weren’t a lot of cars in Tooele and people didn’t have much to do for entertainment locally,” said Bev White, Alma’s daughter-in-law. Under these conditions White convened his meeting at the Tooele County Courthouse to organize a riding club. Germany surrendered the week before, but Japan was still fighting. ![]() The country was still embroiled in “the big one” that had covered the globe and stretched out for 16 years. The club dates back to 1945 and the dreams of a Tooele County sheriff.Īlma “Bish” White was serving as the sheriff of Tooele County during World War II. When July 4 rolls around this year, the people of Tooele County will be treated to the 68th consecutive rodeo put on by the Bit and Spur Riding Club. Water Race team members Woody Fillmore, John Bogart, Floyd White, Joe Mehlbauer and Bart Jensen at the Tooele Bit and Spur rodeo grounds in August 1967.Trophies line a wall at the Bit and Spur Clubhouse in Tooele Tuesday.Sam Anderson rides the flag around the arena at Deseret Peak before the Bit n Spur Rodeo in July 2010.Front Row from left are Dell Boyer, Floyd Halsey and Ellis Orme. Back row from left are George Buzianis, Jim Jackson, Harvey England, Woody Fillmore and Jullian Robinson. The Tooele Bit and Spur Club’s 1949 broom polo team, which went two years undefeated, is shown.Cloyd Theobald, Gully Sullivan, Floyd White, Groo Jenson and Cec Ellisworth pose on their horses at the Potato Race state finals in 1962.Jim Harrell and Cindy Elton pose for a photo at the Bit and Spur Clubhouse in Tooele Tuesday.Bish and Ida White at the Bit and Spur rodeo grounds in May 1958. ![]()
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