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1910 Oregon Daily Jrnl. 30 Sept. 18/5 Steer roping contest for championship of the northwest.

1912 Oregon Sunday Jrnl. 18 Sept. 2/1 Among the many events to be featured at the Round-Up this year is the world's championship wild steer bull-dogging contest.

1914 World's Work Feb. 445/2 It by no means follows that a good steer roper is a good calf roper.

1922 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. i. 5/2 One of the conditions of the steer-wrestling contests is that the contestants will suffer a ‘ten-second fine’ for ‘loosening or knocking off horns’.

1923 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. 16/4 Steer Wrestlers Here. Twenty-three contestants in the ‘steer-wrestling’ or ‘bull-dogging’ competitions..arrived in New York yesterday.

1924 Glasgow Herald 17 June 9 The ‘steer-roping’, which at Saturday's display met with some public disapproval, was withdrawn.

1968 R. F. Adams Western Words (rev. ed.) 305/1 Steer wrestling, one of the five standard rodeo events; also called bulldogging. The contestant rides alongside a running steer, jumps from his saddle to the steer's head, stops it, and twists it to the ground with its head and all four feet pointing in the same direction.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 1- c/3 University of Wyoming steer wrestler Shawn Madden took an early lead in the second go-round of steer wrestling, throwing his animal in 3.67 seconds.

1979 Sunset Apr. 6/3 Horses will compete in 36 classes, including calf and steer-roping events.