Gold Buckle: The Grand Obsession of Rodeo Bull Riders - Hardcover

Coplon, Jeff

 
9780062585455: Gold Buckle: The Grand Obsession of Rodeo Bull Riders
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0062585452 ISBN 13: 9780062585455
Verlag: Harper San Francisco, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

A successful bull ride is eight seconds in hell on a ton of murderous fury. To win the gold buckle takes try - a cowboy noun for courage, concentration, and sheer grit - and lots of it. From its very first sentence, Gold Buckle vaults you directly into the rider's seat, swirling through the sights and sounds and heart-pounding excitement of professional bull riding.
With a journalist's keen eye and a novelist's compelling style, Jeff Coplon reveals the private world of the bull rider - the toughest athlete in the world. Spanning a period of four years, the author travels on the cowboy's do-or-die circuit and meets the moneymen behind the sport, the Hall of Fame riders of the past, and the wives left behind.
From rodeo's rough origins in the Wild West to today's high-stakes, neon-glazed National Finals showdown in Las Vegas, Coplon paints a vivid landscape, as much a portrait of the American West as of professional rodeo and the men who personify its tough and mysterious nature. Here are such legendary cowboys as Lane Frost, Tuff Hedeman, Ty Murray, Charles Sampson, Don Gay, Jim Shoulders, and Harry Tompkins. Gold Buckle is their extraordinary tale of riding, dreaming, of bearing out the pain and glory of each victory and defeat. This is their story - and that of every bull rider who ever reached for the ultimate, gleaming prize.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Reseña del editor

A successful bull ride is eight seconds in hell on a ton of murderous fury. To win the gold buckle takes try - a cowboy noun for courage, concentration, and sheer grit - and lots of it. From its very first sentence, Gold Buckle vaults you directly into the rider's seat, swirling through the sights and sounds and heart-pounding excitement of professional bull riding.
With a journalist's keen eye and a novelist's compelling style, Jeff Coplon reveals the private world of the bull rider - the toughest athlete in the world. Spanning a period of four years, the author travels on the cowboy's do-or-die circuit and meets the moneymen behind the sport, the Hall of Fame riders of the past, and the wives left behind.
From rodeo's rough origins in the Wild West to today's high-stakes, neon-glazed National Finals showdown in Las Vegas, Coplon paints a vivid landscape, as much a portrait of the American West as of professional rodeo and the men who personify its tough and mysterious nature. Here are such legendary cowboys as Lane Frost, Tuff Hedeman, Ty Murray, Charles Sampson, Don Gay, Jim Shoulders, and Harry Tompkins. Gold Buckle is their extraordinary tale of riding, dreaming, of bearing out the pain and glory of each victory and defeat. This is their story - and that of every bull rider who ever reached for the ultimate, gleaming prize.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Harper San Francisco
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0062585452
ISBN 13 
9780062585455
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
275
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780062586087: Gold Buckle: The Grand Obsession of Rodeo Bull Riders

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0062586084 ISBN 13:  9780062586087
Verlag: HarperCollins, 2019
Softcover