Rodeo -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Bern Gregory Rodeo Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1999-025
Abstract
Between 1958 and 1988 Bern Gregory photographed rodeo events and participants in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. In 1975 professional rodeo competitions were divided into 4 regions with each region having 3 circuits. While many of Gregory’s photographs record activities in the Great Lakes and Southeastern...
Dates:
1958 - 1988
Bruce McCarroll Collection of the Bonnie & Frank McCarroll Rodeo Archives
Collection
Identifier: RC2006-076
Abstract
The married rodeo partners, Frank and Bonnie McCarroll, were an extremely popular and successful pair during the 1910s and 1920s. Frank was known for his bulldogging abilities and Bonnie for her trick riding, steer riding, and saddle bronc riding prowess.Bonnie’s death due to injuries sustained in a bronc riding wreck in 1929 at the Pendleton Round-Up was a significant event, a turning point for women in the rodeo. It marked the beginning of the end for cowgirl participation in...
Dates:
circa 1900-circa 1940
Reba Perry Blakely Papers
Collection
Identifier: RCFIC2005-283
Abstract
Papers and photographs of rodeo performer and researcher Reba Perry Blakely, which include extensive correspondence with the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and fragmentary correspondence with several rodeo personalities, subject files connected with various writing and research projects, some of Perry’s articles in manuscript and printed form, and over 60 photographic images, mostly copy prints associated with her writing projects. Some correspondence connected with her research and writing...
Dates:
1903 - 1997
- National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
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