Reposted with gratitude from The Native Cowgirl on Facebook. – Susan Here’s To The Girls The chore girls. The feedlot girls. The ranch girls. And the cowgirls. Here’s to the doers. The hustlers. The ones getting their hands dirty. The women who worked outside all day and the ones who fall asleep as soon as their heads […]
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Photographs are some of the most wonderful historical sources, for friends and family, certainly, but also for historians. They don’t represent the truth of the past, but a moment frozen in time that might have been candid, might have been posed or carefully crafted. Regardless, photos give us a sense of what people looked like
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This is what the vast majority of Canadian rodeos have looked like over time. Small affairs run by local volunteers in temporary buildings and grounds, these rodeos did not generate the mountains of paperwork and bank of professionally-shot photographs, and newspaper coverage that the big, professional circuit shows did. Most of the rare and valuable
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Rodeo Women: Behind the Scenes will not be the first film ever made about Canadians in the sport. In 1972, Josef Reeve’s Hard Rider (National Film Board of Canada) followed the rodeo circuit from BC to Texas with Kenny McLean and his family. The film is about Western stereotypes and their relationship to the reality
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Rodeo was central to the development of the art of sports photography. Go online and you’ll find plenty of archives, museums, commercial image databases, and individuals supplying historical photographs of action in the arena. Before the era of digital cameras, it was not easy to capture legible images of running and bucking livestock with cowboys
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