The Tickling of the Bulls: A Rodeo at Madison Square Garden
The cowboys bowed their heads—some wept—as the announcer beseeched God to keep them safe. John Crimber, the nineteen-year-old Texan prodigy, pressed his hat to his chest over his fresh tattoo that read “Psalm 23”—the prayer he whispers before every ride: “I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.”