ISBN: 1876 780 26 6
Author: Jenny Hicks
Size: B5
Format: Paperback
RRP: $25.95 inc GST

A History of Australian Rodeo

This is the most entertaining history of Australian buckjumping, bull-riding and the professional rodeo circuit ever published. It is jam-packed with the great stories of Australian roughriders from 1788 to 2000.

It stars colourful characters such as the legendary Lance Skuthorpe, Miss Kemp, the lady rider with the shady past, non-lawabiding showman John Daly of the many aliases and the Gills, Australian rodeo’s most powerful dynasty. Australian rodeo cowboys and cowgirls represent our stockmen’s bush heritage mixed with American cowboy razzamattaz and showmanship.

Thoroughly researched and incorporating colourful slabs of oral history, Australian Cowboys Roughriders and Rodeos captures the romantic and adventurous lifestyle and the excitement and drama inside the ring, as well as being packed with information and explanations from ‘behind the chutes’.