Cowboy Park: Steer-Roping Contests on the Border: Steer-Roping on the Border (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest) - Hardcover

Baxter, John O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896726428 ISBN 13: 9780896726420

Verlag: TEXAS TECH UNIV PR, 2009

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A century ago, when Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona outlawed steer-roping contests, there was one place a southwestern roper could go to hone his skills: Cowboy Park, the arena established in 1907 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.
During the formative years of rodeo that preceded the first Calgary Stampede in 1912, Cowboy Park promoted the sport of steer roping and provided a ready training ground for up-and-coming champions. From its inception until growing political turmoil in Mexico brought the enterprise to a halt, Cowboy Park kept the sport alive and fostered celebrity. Its "alumni" swept the first prizes in Calgary and continued to dominate for some years. Yet despite its significant influence on the future of rodeo, the arena has until now received scant attention.
Through the history he has recovered and photographs - many published here for the first time - John Baxter documents and illuminates the era of Cowboy Park and the early champions who won their spurs there.

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John O. Baxter is an expert in water rights and other aspects of the history, culture, and law of the Southwest. A former archivist and historian for the State of New Mexico, Baxter holds the Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico and is the author of Dividing New Mexico’s Waters, 1700–1912 and Las Carneradas: Sheep Trade in New Mexico, 1700–1860. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Richard W. Slatta is professor of history at North Carolina State University. He is the author of eight books, including Cowboy: The Illustrated History, and more than 250 articles and reviews. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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A century ago, when Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona outlawed steer roping contests, there was one place a southwestern roper could go to hone his skills: Cowboy Park, the arena established in 1907 in Ciudad Jurez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.

During the formative years of rodeo that preceded the first Calgary Stampede in 1912, Cowboy Park promoted the sport of steer roping and provided a ready training ground for up-and-coming champions. From its inception until growing political turmoil in Mexico brought the enterprise to a halt, Cowboy Park kept the sport alive and fostered celebrityits "alumni" swept the first prizes in Calgary and continued to dominate for some years. This unique institution, despite its significant influence on the future of rodeo, has until now received scant attention.

Through the history he has recovered and photographsmany published here for the first timeJohn Baxter documents and illuminates the era of Cowboy Park and the early champions who won their spurs there.

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• Verlag: TEXAS TECH UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0896726428
• ISBN 13: 9780896726420
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
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