Cowgirls of the Rodeo
Subtitle: PIONEER PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES (Sport and Society)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780252068744
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Animal spectacles; Equestrian & animal sports; Women's studies; Rodeo; Women And Sports; Sports & Recreation; Sports; USA; History; Rodeos; Women's Studies - History; Sports & Recreation / General; General
First sentence: American rodeo owes its very existence to the public's continuing fascination the cowboy hero, and what the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann and art historian William N. Goetzmann call "the West of the Imagination."