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Barrel Racing 101: A Complete Program for Horse and Rider
Author: Marlene McRae
ISBN-10: 1592287964
ISBN-13: 9781592287963
Published: 2006-07-01
Publisher: The Lyons Press
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Pendleton Round-Up at 100: Oregon's Legendary Rodeo
Author: Michael Bales
ISBN-10: 0882407732
ISBN-13: 9780882407739
Published: 2009-07-01
Publisher: East Oregonian Publishing Company
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Every September since 1910, the Pendleton Round-Up has drawn thousands of rodeo fans to a small town in eastern Oregon. For seven days, the crowds in Pendleton thrill to contests that range from bull riding and bronc busting to barrel racing and bareback Indian relays. This extravagantly illustrated book commemorates the centennial of the Round-Up and captures its enduring appeal in Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, and the world of rodeo.As highlighted in these pages, the Pendleton Round-Up has many singular features. First, there is its famous “bucking horse” logo and its signature slogan, “Let ‘er Buck.” Then there are its unique long wooden chutes and hard grass turf. And from the very beginning, American Indians have been as much a part of the Round-Up scene as the cowboys and roughstock. In the rodeo’s Native American Village, Indians camp in traditional tipis and celebrate their long-standing cultural traditions.Beautifully designed, this book features a breadth of color and black-and-white photographs—more than 900—showcasing the riders, the drama, and the special atmosphere that is Pendleton.
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History
Author: Joy S. Kasson
ISBN-10: 0809032449
ISBN-13: 9780809032440
Published: 2001-10-17
Publisher: Hill and Wang
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A fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainmentCanada, and Europe. Crowds cheered as cowboys and Indians--and Annie Oakley!--galloped past on spirited horses, sharpshooters exploded glass balls tossed high in the air, and cavalry troops arrived just in time to save a stagecoach from Indian attack. Vivid posters on billboards everywhere made William Cody, the show's originator and star, a world-renowned figure.Joy S. Kasson's important new book traces Cody's rise from scout to international celebrity, and shows how his image was shaped. Publicity stressed his show's "authenticity" yet audiences thrilled to its melodrama; fact and fiction converged in a performance that instantly became part of the American tradition.But how, precisely, did that come about? How, for example, did Cody use his audience's memories of the Civil War and the Indian wars? He boasted that his show included participants in the recent conflicts it presented theatrically, yet he also claimed it evoked "memories" of America's bygone greatness. Kasson's shrewd, engaging study--richly illustrated--in exploring the disappearing boundary between entertainment and public events in American culture, shows us just how we came to imagine our memories.
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Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University)
Author: Jane Pattie
ISBN-10: 1603445218
ISBN-13: 9781603445214
Published: 2012-01-13
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
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Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo (The Western Legacies Series)
Author: Richard C. Rattenbury
ISBN-10: 0806140844
ISBN-13: 9780806140841
Published: 2010-10-01
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd)
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From its roots in cowboy and vaquero culture to the big-business excitement of today s National Finals competitions, rodeo has embodied the rugged individual-ism and competitive spirit of the American West. Now the long trajectory of rodeo culture comes fully alive in Arena Legacy. Showcasing the unrivaled collections of the National Cowboy&Western Heritage Museum, this lavishly illustrated volume is the first to depict rodeo s material and graphic heritage. Richard Rattenbury opens Arena Legacy with an engaging and richly illustrated history of rodeo, from its first recorded competition in Colorado in 1869, to its role in county fairs, cattlemen s conventions, and old settlers reunions across the West, to its rise to national prominence between 1920 and 1960. Following its historical overview, Arena Legacy features an extensive pictorial gallery of signature materials. A series of colorful portfolios reveals treasured artifacts from rodeo life, including costumes, trophies, buckles, and riding equipment. Here the reader will discover lavish artistry in leather and silver, flamboyant expression in western dress, and the interpretive work of both fine artists and commercial illustrators. Certain to delight a diverse audience of rodeo aficionados, participants, collectors, and historians, this stunning volume is a fitting tribute to America s truly western sport. Winner -- 2011 Independent Book Publishers IPPY SILVER AWARD for Coffee Table BookFinalist -- 2011 Oklahoma Book Awards for Non-FictionFinalist -- 2011 Oklahoma Book Awards for Design and Photography
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Team Roping 101: The Complete Sport from Header to Heeler
Author: Kayla Starnes
ISBN-10: 1570764719
ISBN-13: 9781570764714
Published: 2011-06-15
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
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In this handbook, world champion ropers and professional instructors offer advice and valuable tips on coaching students, from groundwork to preparing for and entering competition. Starting with a thorough introduction to the basics—including rope selection, horses, and rider proficiency—this handbook is the official resource to roping from the United States Team Roping Championships, the governing organization of the sport. With complete information about the rules and regulations of the sport, it illustrates how team roping evolved into a sport when a couple of cowboys turned a common ranching procedure—that grew from the securing a steer for branding or medical issues—into a competition. Covering all the essentials, from rope handling both on and off the horse and the ins and outs of a competition to official rules and evaluating personal runs, this indispensible guidebook is a must-have for anyone interested or involved in team roping.
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Chilcotin Yarns
Author: Bruce Watt
ISBN-10: 1927051436
ISBN-13: 9781927051436
Published: 2012-03-15
Publisher: Heritage House
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Getting three trucks and two horses stuck in the mud on a good road into BCs wild, remote interior, it was just the start of Bruce Watts hilarious adventures—and it was his honeymoon, too. When the newly married Watt moved to there in 1948 to take up ranching, he was a just a kid in his early 20s. He and his wife fell in love with Big Creek, three hours southwest of Williams Lake, and its wildlife, beautiful landscapes and quirky, down-to-earth people. Despite the tough work and difficult conditions, they put down roots and stayed, raising a family of five, along with herds of cattle and horses. This consummate storyteller tells it like was—and still is, perhaps, for many still making this place their home. Bruces hilarious stories of chasing horses and getting five kids off to school (until they were a ripe eight or nine years old and could drive themselves) have a charm all their own. These yarns capture the adventure and especially the humour of running a ranch—roping cougars, having close calls on cliff edges and all the other usual accidents. Watts cowboy honesty and campfire-style storytelling are irresistible.
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Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame
Author: Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
ISBN-10: 0226469557
ISBN-13: 9780226469553
Published: 1984-05-15
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Rodeo people call their sport "more a way of life than a way to make a living." Rodeo is, in fact, a rite that not only expresses a way of life but perpetuates it, reaffirming in a ritual contest between man and animal the values of American ranching society. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence uses an interpretive approach to analyze rodeo as a symbolic pageant that reenacts the "winning of the West" and as a stylized expression of frontier attitudes toward man and nature. Rodeo constestants are the modern counterparts of the rugged and individualistic cowboys, and the ethos they inherited is marked by ambivalence: they admire the wild and the free yet desire to tame and conquer. Based on extensive field work and drawing on comparative materials from other stock-tending societies, Rodeo is a major contribution to an understanding of the role of performance in society, the culturally constructed view of man's place in nature, and the structure and meaning of social relationships and their representations.
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Rodeo Legends: Twenty Extraordinary Athletes of America's Sport (Western Horseman Books)
Author: Gavin Ehringer
ISBN-10: 1585747106
ISBN-13: 9781585747108
Published: 2003-07-01
Publisher: Western Horseman
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The life and times of the sport of rodeo's twenty greatest athletes, with hundreds of dramatic photographs.
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