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Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The Lady Rode Bucking Horses depicts an era of the American West when capturing renegade horses from the hills above the homestead served as training ground for extraordinary horsemanship. It documents the life of the outstanding girl who outrode them all at stampedes and roundups and the woman she became, her spirit undaunted throughout a life marked with courage and adventure, triumph and heartache.
Born on a Montana homestead in 1887, at the age...
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
For over ten years, the author traveled the backroads of the West, talking with "rodeo queens", the women who promote and perform in the elaborate pageantry of the rodeo. Thier stories of fulfilled dreams and lost hopes reveal the tenacity of the myth of the American West.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Is it Possible to 'Cowboy' on Six Continents? That is just what J.B. Zielke did in his early twenties. Argentina to Mongolia, Mexico to Australia this book takes you to places that you may not have even realized there are cowboys. Gunfights, feral bulls, bank truck robberies, and little old men riding reindeer are all part of this modern-day international cowboy journey. Being a cowboy is a dangerous occupation no matter where in the world it's done....
Author
Pub. Date
[2013].
Description
Fred Whitfield is one of the greatest cowboys to ever compete in professional rodeo, but will go down in history as "the black one." When Fred joined the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association in 1989, African-Americans comprised a whopping 1% of its 10,000 members and only one other black man won one gold buckle before Fred won eight of them. Rodeo is a harsh mistress who will take you to the top of the mountain only to drop you off on your head,...
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