Tio Cowboy
Subtitle: Jaun Salinas, Rodeo Roper and Horseman (Fronteras Series)
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: March 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781585445271
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Animal husbandry; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Texas; Farmers & Ranchers; Regional Subjects - South; United States - State & Local - Southwest; Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies; Historical - General; Biography; Cowboys; Rodeo performers; Steer roping; United States
Description: One of the best tie-down calf ropers ever to come out of South Texas, Juan Salinas grew up on a 15,000-acre ranch near Laredo, with the finest of horses to ride and hundreds of head of cattle to practice on. He roped in Texas rodeos large and small from the mid-1920s to 1935. From 1936 to 1946, he followed the national rodeo circuit, competing from Texas to New York's Madison Square Garden. At the time, few if any other Mexican Americans competed in rodeo, and Salinas drew a lot of attention.