James Uriah and his siblings enjoyed the good schools in Nephi.  But, in 1883, they moved once again, to the town of Chester, in San Pete County, where once again there were no schools.  Then back they went to Nephi in 1886.  James Uriah was 18 that year.  In 1889, they moved to Woodside, Emery County, Utah, on a ranch six miles west of Woodside.  There were no schools there.  But there was "good free range for cattle and we begun cattle raising."
James regretted that he, his sister Mary, and his younger brother Perry Alonzo had a "very poor chance for education."  His son, Lyle, wrote that his father only got through five grades of school.

The Kindest Cut
It was either in Kansas, but more probably in Utah that James Uriah found occasion to help out his brother.  According to Roy, "We killed a big old desert sidewinder out at the sheep camp.  And Grandpa Coleman told me, 'Every time I see a rattlesnake it reminds me of picking strawberries. They was out picking strawberries back there and they had a strawberry patch.  And his brother just raised up the leaves to pick strawberries and this old rattlesnake bit him right on the end of the finger.  And he just jerked out his pocket knife and cut his brother's finger off right at the joint.  Cut it clear off.  From then on he didn't have a middle finger.  He said they was scared to death of rattle snakes.   Then he told me that story.  He said, 'Now I couldn't cut anybody's finger off, but then we thought it was the thing to do.  Saved his life.'

Charley Dorsey
It was during his horse riding days that James Uriah became acquainted with Charley E. Dorsey, at Horse Canyon, as Charley was taking care of the coal mine there and doing some riding, as he owned some cattle.  They became like brothers, working together.  This same Charles Dorsey eventually took off with his sister, Mary Elizabeth, after her first husband disappeared under mysterious circumstances.  After a time he knew "but little about Sister Mary for the [next] 50 years, as she moved to Oklahoma, 12 miles north of Woodward."  Charley and Mary E. changed their last name to Forrest and Charley changed his first name for probably the second time in his life.  Mary spent the rest of her life infear that someone from her past would find out where she was and what name she was going under.

Rodeo Rider
It was probably as a young man, that James Uriah became a rodeo rider.  He would ride saddle broncs for the fair in Nephi and July 4th celebrations.  Lyle said his father won prizes for 2 years at the World's Fair, but it was probably the Rodeo Nationals.  James Uriah would eventually travel to rodeos and developed a reputation as the cowboy no horse could throw.  He said:
"We'd ride mustangs and put them in a round corral that had a swinging gate.  And we'd get up on this gate and drop on them when they came out."  At one point his partner got killed when he hit his head on a telephone post when the horse threw him. 
"At Tenack they had a buck all the time they carried around in the rodeos and never had been rode, so they was offering $500 for anybody that could stick with him for 2 minutes.  And I was flat broke, so I thought, 'Well, I'd go down to my grave to ever get that...  So I told them I'd take him on.  Of course they put a sure shin around so you could hold on.  But going back and forth, boy, that was something to stay on.  But when I got onand slapped the spurs to him, he threw his tail over his back and I just nailed it and held it down over my shoulder.  And I tell you I was there to stay.  He just bucked and he stood right up on his head and he turned sideways and pitched every way.  You'd think he's going to light right on his side, and still he'd light on his feet. 
"The last jump he made he broke the vessel to his heart and dropped dead.  I was about rode to death, too.  I stayed on about a minute and a half.  I got my prize.
"And I didn't ride anymore for quite a while.  But I rode several after that, just one here and there, till after they barred me...That was in Cedar City, Utah, they was having a big rodeo there.  They barred me there.... Never throwed, so they barred me from riding.  Then I just rode broncos for myself and other people that I could get."

Horse Breaking
After one year in Nephi, the Jacob Coleman family had moved to Chester, in San Pete County, Utah, where they bought a home and farmed for five years.  Finally they sold out everything and moved to Woodside, Emery (at that time, perhaps Carbon) County, Utah.   
James Uriah had ridden rodeos for 7 to 9 years.  Now he had a reputation as a horse breaker people would bring horses to him to break.  He had a system.  He would break two horses a day.  At $5 a head he made good money.  The Mullen brothers brought him 60 horses to break once.  And he had the use of the horses for up to a year if he wanted.  Some horses would only buck half a dozen times.  But as soon as they found they couldn't throw him they would quit.
He told Lyle, "Well I had sixty head to break at $5 a head and whenever I'd get 10 head broke, then we'd drive them over.  I'd get onto one and ride it till it quit bucking and then I'd let my brother get on it.  And then I'd ride another until he'd quit bucking and Charley Dorsey would get on it.  And then I'd get on another bronc and then we'd drive the rest and then head over there on the broncs. 
"And boy-o-boy believe me, they soon learned to guide and to run and knew what they was doing.  It didn't take them but a few minutes.  Of course as I got them horses off of the ranch and got them started towards home they knew where they was going.  And they're no trouble.  We'd ride them broncos over there and we'd put
three head to add into it and we'd ride them back.  Time we got back we had three more broke.  Oh, we had lots of fun. 
"One day I got on one we'd rounded up.  I'd always take two or three head with me when I went on round-up to get our stock no matter where they was.  I'd have to neck them together to keep them, you know, riding.  And we got virtually about 100 head of cattle together, started for the ranch, and it rained, it was pouring down rain.  And when we got up to Horse Canyon, that was 8 miles from Whitmore Canyon, the biggest part of the Whitmores, they cut ours out and let them there.  (They stayed there, you know, just below the ranch.) 
"When the cutter rounded them up, George didn't want to round them up, he wanted us to drive them on home and then drive ours back and I said, "No."  I say's "We're going to round them up here."  And he says, "No you aren't."  And I just whipped out my gun and fired two shots in the air.  And hollered to my brother to go on the way and for Charley Dorsey to stay at the back and hold them and be corralling them and cut them out. 
"That was on this bronc and this bronc was the meanest there was.  And when we got them rounded up in a tight bunch, why, I seen one I wanted there, got cut out and he was right at the edge so I started my bronc towards him and Charlie says, 'Come back Jim,'  he said, 'You know you can't cut out of that colt.' 
"Now I never paid no attention.  When I got right up close to him I socked the spurs in that horse MORE