Arena Legacy - The Heritage of American Rodeo

Informationen zum Autor Richard C. Rattenbury earned a B.A. degree in history from Texas Christian University and an M.A. in museum studies from Texas Tech University. Rattenbury formerly held curatorial positions with the Winchester Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, and with the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas. He has served as curator of history at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum since 1987 and is the author of Hunting the American West, The Art of American Arms Makers, and Packing Iron: Gunleather of the Frontier West. Richard resides with his wife, Suzette, in Edmond, Oklahoma. Klappentext This engaging and richly illustrated history of rodeo, from its first recorded competition in Colorado in 1869, to its role in county fairs, cattlemens conventions, and old settlers reunions across the West, chronicles its rise to national prominence between 1920 and 1960.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Rattenbury, Richard C. Rattenbury
• Assisted by: Ed Muno (Photographs)
• Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2010
• EAN: 9780806140841
• ISBN: 978-0-8061-4084-1
• Series: Western Legacies; Western Legacies; The Western Legacies Series
• Subject: Guides > Nature > Horses, riding