| Barrel Racing for Fun and Fast Times: Winning Tips for Horse and Rider
| How to select, train, and compete on a winning barrel racer.Barrel racing, in which horse and rider gallop in a cloverleaf pattern around three barrels, is the fastest-growing rodeo event. Author Sharon Camarillo, a successful contestant-turned trainer, teacher, and commentator, presents a comprehensive program that takes the novice barrel racer from the process of choosing her horse up to preparation for and taking part in real races. More than just a specialized manual, Barrel...More
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| Ranch Roping: The Complete Guide to a Classic Cowboy Skill
| One hundred full-color photographs of Buck in action enhance the step-by-step methodology that leads to mastering this essential Western skill.
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| Jim Shoulders: Oklahoma's Rodeo Cowboy
| Jim Shoulders won rodeo’s All-Around World Championship in 1949, 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959. He won the bareback bronc riding world championship title in 1950, 1956, 1957 and 1958. And, in the event he is most famous for, he won the bull riding world championship in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959. Plus, amazingly, he finished second (“Reserve Champion”) in either bareback bronc riding or bull riding ten other years. So he actually came very close to holding 27 world championshi...More
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| Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History
| 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...More
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| Wild Ride: The History of Western Rodeo
| Wild Ride The History and Lore of Rodeo Joel Bernstein Wild Ride presents a fascinating history of rodeo from its rugged beginnings in Mexico to today's professional circuits. This book captures the mystique of the cowboy and his place in Western folklore, from the early days when groups of cowboys from neighboring ranches met to settle arguments over who was the best at performing ranching tasks to the multimillion-dollar prizes and endorsements awarded to today's professionals all over the ...More
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| Barrel Racing 101: A Complete Program for Horse and Rider
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| Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933
| Between the 1880s and the 1930s Show Indians depicted their warfare with whites and portrayed scenes from their culture in productions that traveled throughout the United States and Europe and drew huge audiences--well over a million people in 1885 alone.The view that they were tipi-and-war-bonnet Indians exploited by entrepreneurs like Buffalo Bill was commonly held by reformers of the 1890s, and has been uncritically accepted ever since. This book, now available in paperback, is the first to e...More
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| Casey Tibbs - Born to Ride
| Six-time world champion saddle bronc rider and nine-time all around world champion Casey Tibbs lives again in Rusty Richards' authorized biography of the dashing and daring rodeo superstar. But this biography is about much more than Casey Tibbs' incredible rodeo abilities. This story is about a charismatic, bigger-than-life cowboy from South Dakota, generous to a fault, filled with faults, yet immeasureably talented with a sense of humor to match. Casey Tibbs moved with ease from the rodeo arena...More
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| This Ain't No Rodeo
| Sweat, BloodDirt, BullsPain, GlorySome people think this is a rodeoThis Ain't No RodeoThis is Bull Riding!Inside these covers you will find stories about one of the toughest individual sports there is -- bull riding and those who participate. This exciting sport pits the riding skills, ability to read and interpret the animal athlete's movements, strength and sheer determination of the rider against the brute force,power and determination of a bull who doesn't want that rider on his back.As exci...More
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| Cutting: A Guide for the Non-Pro Competitor (The Howell Equestrian Library)
| Focuses on selecting the right horse, perfecting the horse's ability "to read" cattle, and learning what top riders and trainers say about making the 2 1/2 minutes in the arena winning time.
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| Pendleton Round-Up at 100: Oregon's Legendary Rodeo
| 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 ma...More
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| Professional Bull Riders: The Official Guide to the Toughest Sport on Earth
| This is not a rodeo. They don't rope calves or chase barrels. This is bull riding, and the first rule is to just stay alive. It's one man, one bull, and eight precious seconds. This book is your ticket to the action. All of the blood, sweat, and dirt is here in a full-color collection of breathtaking, action-packed photographs from the Professional Bull Riders. The PBR is one of the fastest-growing sports in history, boasting multimillion-dollar purses for its athletes and more than 100 ...More
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| Rodeo Dayz
| A book of short stories about 9 rodeo contestants and their love for rodeo.This book also has a short history of Rodeo in New York, which is co-authored by Donnie Baxter, Wayne and Leo Martin. Author biographies are also inside to learn about each contestant.So hang on tight, and get a good seat for the 8 second ride of a lifetime. You surely will feel, as if you were strapped to a 1500 lb. bull, or running barrels for a fast 12 second run.
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| Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies, & Bull Riders: A Year Inside the Professional Bull Riders Tour
| In this intimate look at a fascinating subculture, award-winning sports journalist Josh Peter takes readers along on the Professional Bull Riders tour to witness the death-defying confrontation between man and beast that has made bull riding the fastest growing sport in the world. Success in this sport is measured in seconds--staying on a bull for 8 seconds without getting tossed is likely to secure the rider a big score. Josh Peter captures the high drama of the sport and introduces readers to ...More
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| Riders of the West: Portraits from Indian Rodeo
| In the spring of 1993, photographer Linda MacCannell began to travel the Indian rodeo circuit, using a large-format view camera to photograph participants and their families. She also photographed the action in the arena and the incredible western landscape that surrounded the rodeo venues. Her photographs provide a striking record of an activity that remains a colorful and significant part of life for Native Americans from Alberta to Arizona.In his engaging and informative accompanying text, Pe...More
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| Team Roping 101: The Complete Sport from Header to Heeler
| 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 s...More
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| Roughstock - the Mud, the Blood & the Beer
| Ty Murray, the greatest rodeo cowboy of all time, shares stories from teh long, dusty rodeo road and insights on what it takes to make it professionally in the cowboy sport's roughstock events, which include bareback, saddle bronc, and bull riding. "The King of the Cowboys" takes readers behind the chutes and into the trenches of rodeo's danger zone.
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| Let' er Buck: A Story of the Passing of the Old West
| Charles Wellington Furlong's monumental bestseller Let `Er Buck, an account of the now famous Pendleton Round-Up--complete with fifty of Furlong's famous pictures, was first published in 1921 to educate the "blasé, effete, lily-livered youths" of America about the values of an "honorable physical contest"--the rodeo. Out of print for over eighty years, it has at last been resurrected in this stunning Overlook reproduction, entirely faithful to Furlong's original, and beautifully p...More
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| Man, Beast, Dust (Second Edition): The Story of Rodeo
| Ever since the early cowboys cut a swath through the open range and the bawdy cow towns, rodeo has been part of the American scene. Today it has a huge following. Alive with color, movement, and sharp observation, Man, Beast, Dust tells the story of rodeo from its beginnings. Clifford P. Westermeier takes us along the dusty trails traveled by cowhands of only yesterday—to Cheyenne, Pecos City, Prescott, Lander, and Miles City. We attend “two-bit,” one-day shows and the fabulous aren...More
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