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Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, CanadaWagon Tongue Books
AbeBooks seller since November 4, 1999
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If you read Ken Kesey's tale about the `Last Round-Up' in Pendleton, Oregon - you'll be pleased to see the coverage he gets here. If you know who Rod Hay, Casey Tibbs, Larry Mahan, and Dan Mortensen are - again you' ll be home in these 326, including INDEX, UNillustrated pages. Read more about : the Dusky Demon, bull-tailing, Lazy E Arena, Flipper Ellison, Freckles Brown, Leakey Texas, and Miller Brothers 101 Ranch. Cond : Boards are orangey with a rust-coloured spine band. Gilt lettering - spine only. D.J. is cream coloured with burgundy or rust-coloured lettering. D.J. graphic - colour photo is of a saddle bronc rider spurring a high-kicker hard. Volume and d.j. are both tight, bright and clean in ALL aspects. No names, marks, stains, creases ,nor tears. Decidedly giftable !! Quote (p.163) : " As for Lucille , she continued to dazzle crowds as the ` first well-known Cowgirl' with the Mulhall show through 1910, and she continued to amaze and frustrate male contestants against whom she competed in rodeos. She also gained a measure of notoriety when she killed a steer during a show at ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.…
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- Title
- Chasing the Rodeo
- Author
- Stratton, W.K.
- Publisher
- Harcourt, N.Y.
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0151010722
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010721
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Cowboy and Western
In Chasing the Rodeo W. K. Stratton follows this quest for one season of the pro rodeo and bull-riding tours. He explores the history of the chutes -- from rodeo's disputed origins (Prescott, Arizona, or Pecos, Texas?) to its current skyrocketing popularity. But out on the trail Stratton finds more than calf-roping and unrideable bulls, uncovering a culture complete with myths, codes of honor, million-dollar purses, Cowboy Church, and the kinds of legends that make good stories unforgettable.
Just such a story emerges here as Stratton tells of his runaway "rodeo bum" father --Cowboy Don -- whose specter haunts his travels on the circuit. As he learns more about the life that proved too seductive for his father to abandon, Stratton fills in a portrait of the man he never knew but whose legacy he couldn't help but inherit.
Filled with cowboy longing and rodeo dreams, this is a tribute to the characters of the West -- Freckles Brown, Lucille Mulhall (the first cowgirl), Wild Bill Hickock, Lane Frost, and today's superstars like Jesse Bail. In the great tradition of Wallace Stegner and Ken Kesey, W. K. Stratton fashions an expansive tale out of the gritty reality of the life around us. Chasing the Rodeo is a bucking, riveting, glorious ride -- you'll want to hang on for the whole go-round.
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Wagon Tongue Books
Linden, AB, Canada
AbeBooks seller since November 4, 1999
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I am a small home-based business so I may be difficult to reach by phone. I'm in the Mountain time zone. I've been passionate about books for approximately 30 years. Thank you for thinking Wagon Tongue.
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western canadiana, ephemera & rarities, horse and horse-related, cowboy stuff, indians and North American first peoples, things that catch my eye - including (non)books, mere bagatellesSeller's business information
Wagon Tongue Books
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We may accept International money orders or personal cheques; please allow 6 days for cheques to clear. Please make cheques payable to Wagon Tongue Books. I can handle your credit card transactions ONLY through the ABE.commerce program. PAYPAL is also a workable option. We under rate the condition of our books, build cardboard shipping sleeves for protected shipping and respond promptly to requests and queries. Shipping and handling on all books is at the expense of the purchaser, and is often in the $12.95 per item range. Book weight and volume purchases will alter these conditions. We will be happy to re-quote books in Canadian dollars for local buyers and to arrange local `hand-offs'of purchases, if you prefer.
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