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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders -- some call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now Bill and Evelyn Wright, parents to 13 children and grandparents to many more, find themselves struggling to hang on to the majestic landscape where they've been running cattle for 150 years as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Blacktop Cowboys chronicles the 2004 rodeo season through the eyes of several steer wrestlers trying to make it back to rodeo's version of the Super Bowl, the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas.
Steer wrestling is an adventure that entails riding into an arena at 25 mph, sliding off a horse while taking hold of a 500-pound steer, and then throwing the animal to the ground. The best cowboys often accomplish all this in less than four seconds....
3) The exiles
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"[C]hronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends, the film follows a group of exiles -- transplants from Southwest reservations -- as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance." -- Container.
Author
Publisher
Elevate Faith
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
At the age of 14, the author experienced a vision that directed him to set out on a career in bullfighting, and to use that career as a way of fully engaging his Christian faith. An encounter with professional rider Donny Sparks (a distant relative) led him to adopt 10 principles that would guide him through his bullfighting career and along his path of Christian discipleship. Once a small town kid from Arkansas, now a Hall-of-Fame rodeo icon, Sparks...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Jackson Sundown, born in Montana in 1863 in the Nez Perce tribe, had a special talent: understanding horses. One day he would grow up to win the Pendleton Round-Up World Championship for bronc riding, in Oregon. He is now in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, and this book introduces young readers to his fascinating story."--Provided by publisher.
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