Rodeo Queens: On The Circuit With America's Cowgirls
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (531 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1586482041 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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A true treasure." -- True West, August/September 2003."what it's like to be a woman in farm country, an ultimately tough situation that strains typical notions of feminism." -- Salt Lake Tribune, August 10, 2003.. "combines a native's understanding of the territory with an outsider's skepticism." -- Hartford Courant, November 10, 2002"A wonderful souvenir of a rural and urban spectator sportan invaluable collection of memories from Western women." -- Bookpage, October 2002"In the testosterone-tossed world of rodeo, Burbick serves up a dele
So who are the women behind the candy-red chaps, Farrah Fawcett curls, and rhinestone tiaras? Burbick traveled the backroads of the rural West for years, trying to find out. Rodeo has always been considered a supremely masculine sport, a rough and tumble display of macho strength and skill. Their combined stories of fulfilled dreams and lost hopes reveal the tenacity of the myth of the American West, a place of muscled men, golden-haired women, relentless beauty and tragic limits.. She interviewed dozens of queens, including rodeo royalty from the 1930s and 40s, women who grew up breaking wild horses, branding calves, and witnessing the sad decline of the ranching life. Finally, rodeo queens from the 1970s to the present describe a more fiercely commercial rodeo, driven largely by TV-ratings and sponsorships, glitter and hairspray. Illustrated throughout with wonderful photographs, this rich tapestry of women's voices echoes and challenges ou
"Interesting book" according to BettyCos. I purchased this book for a friend as she had loaned hers and didn't get it back. She has let me read it and I find it very interesting. If you are a rodeo fan, you will find good stories and information in this book.. Theodore A. Rushton said Here's the reality of the "myth" of the cowboy West. By all standards, this is a superb book about a seemingly innocuous weekend sport that inspires young girls throughout the western states; by the same token, it's also very unfair and elitist in its approach. It could be the basis of a superb film about life west of the Mississippi. Think of rodeo queen version of 'Friday Night Lights' and similar football films over the years. B. "I was disappointed, but it wasn't the author's fault." according to Dan. The mistake I made here was judging the book by the cover. I picked it up because I thought the topic was interesting, and I thought it would detail the lives and personalities of the kind of sassy, salty, almost defiant cowgirls like the ones depicted on the cover. I knew next to nothing about the rodeo and never heard of a rodeo queen before, so I thought she was a sort of cowg
Joan Burbick teaches American Studies at Washington State University. Born in Chicago, she has lived in the Palouse region of northern Idaho and eastern Washington for the last twenty years, writing, raising a family, and, in her free time, working with horses.