On Down The Road; The World Of The Rodeo Cowboy.

BOB ST. JOHN

Publication: Eakin Press, 1983, Austin

First edition thus. 8vo. Review copy with the slip laid-in. Pictorial stiff wrappers, xv [1], 236 pp., preface, forewords, about the author, illustrated from photographs, glossary, acknowledgments. In writing this book, the author embedded himself in the world of the rodeo cowboy. St. John traveled with them from rodeo to rodeo, sat up with them in motel rooms late at night, listened to their stories, and captured the way they talked and their personalities. Getting to know many of them individually, he gives us an intimate look at their personal and professional lives. St. John also explains the various events--- bronc and bareback riding, bull riding, calf roping, barrel racing and more. There are chapters devoted to the origins of the rodeo, men who provide the stock, the major and minor rodeos, and the most important cowboys of all--- the rodeo clowns.

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