Rodeo clowns face down a Brahma

Kissimmee, Florida

photo: Randal G Prophet

Young Cowboy Watching the Rodeo 
San Angelo Fat Stock Show - 1940
San Angelo, Texas 

Young Cowboy Watching the Rodeo 

San Angelo Fat Stock Show - 1940

San Angelo, Texas 

Fox Hastings, Bea Kirnan, Ruth Roach, unknown, Lorena Trickey, and Prairie Rose Henderson
 
Photograph, ca. 1920 
University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Archives, Denton, Texas.

Will Rogers Stampede PRCA Rodeo

Memorial Day Weekend 2012

Will Rogers Stampede Arena, Claremore, OK

http://www.willrogersstampede.com/index.html

Los Angeles Sheriffs’ Rodeo

Los Angeles Coliseum, 1956

One of those years Roy Rogers was the Grand Marshall with more than 100,000 fans in the stands. 

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Trent Willmon    Ropin’ Pen

Florida High School Rodeo Practice
Dakota Randolph takes her horse, “20X” around a barrel at Stormy Gray Farm in Citra, Fla. on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The Florida High School Rodeo kicks off the Southeastern Youth Fair which runs from Feb. 17-28 in Ocala.

Florida High School Rodeo Practice

Dakota Randolph takes her horse, “20X” around a barrel at Stormy Gray Farm in Citra, Fla. on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The Florida High School Rodeo kicks off the Southeastern Youth Fair which runs from Feb. 17-28 in Ocala.

Pee Wee Burge on Upper Deck
Escalon, California
May 1946
DeVere Helfrich, photographer

Lost In Thought

Red Clark from Afton Wyoming before his ride on a bare back bronc at the Jackson Hole Rodeo. A moment of reflection is common behind the chutes.