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Rodeo - An Animal History (Hardcover)
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Rodeo - An Animal History (Hardcover)
Series: The Environment in Modern North America
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What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human
triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and
stubbornness?"" asks animal historian Susan Nance. Against the
backdrop of the larger histories of ranching, cattle, horses, and
the environment in the West, this book explores how the evolution
of rodeo has reflected rural western beliefs and assumptions about
the natural world that have led to environmental crises and served
the beef empire. By unearthing behind-the-scenes stories of rodeo
animals as diverse individuals, this book lays bare contradictions
within rodeo and the rural West. For almost 150 years, westerners
have used rodeo to symbolically reenact their struggles with
animals and the land as uniformly progressive and triumphant. Nance
upends that view with accounts of individual animals that reveal
how diligently rodeo people have worked to make livestock into
surrogates for the trials of rural life in the West and the
violence in its history. Western horses and cattle were more than
just props. Rodeo reclaims their lived history through compelling
stories of anonymous roping steers and calves who inspired reform
of the sport, such as the famed but abused bucker Steamboat, and
the many broncs and bulls, famous or not, who unknowingly built an
industry. Rodeo is a dangerous sport that reveals many westerners
as people proudly tolerant of risk and violence, and ready to
impose these values on livestock. In Rodeo: An Animal History,
Nance pushes past standard histories and the sport's publicity to
show how rodeo was shot through with stubbornness and human failing
as much as fortitude and community spirit.
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