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Canadian Rodeo on Film, part 1

Uncategorized / Susan Nance

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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Men and boys watching pony riding at Sarcee All Indian Rodeo 1964

On Rodeo Stereotypes, part 1

Uncategorized / Susan Nance

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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