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Outriders - Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West (Paperback)
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Outriders - Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West (Paperback)
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Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the
strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular
imagination, the western rodeo hero is often a stoic white man who
embodies the toughness and independence of America's frontier past.
However, marginalized people have starred in rodeos since the very
beginning. Cast out of popular western mythology and pushed to the
fringes in everyday life, these cowboys and cowgirls found
belonging and meaning at the rodeo, staking a claim to national
inclusion. Outriders explores the histories of rodeoers at the
margins of society, from female bronc-riders in the 1910s and 1920s
and convict cowboys in Texas in the mid-twentieth century to
all-black rodeos in the 1960s and 1970s and gay rodeoers in the
late twentieth century. These rodeo riders not only widened the
definition of the real American cowboy but also, at times,
reinforced the persistent and exclusionary myth of an idealized
western identity. In this nuanced study, Rebecca Scofield shares
how these outsider communities courted authenticity as they put
their lives on the line to connect with an imagined American West.
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