Gold Buckle: The Grand Obsession of Rodeo Bull Riders

4th printing. A BULLRIDING AFFICIONADO/SCHOLAR GEM! Save for a few dog-earred page impressions, A FINE, like-new, bright, clean, tight copy sans other flaws in a MYLAR PROTECTVE COVER. "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 cowboys' 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." ILLUSTRATED in black & white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. 275 pages. GC4.