Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western rodeo hero is often a stoic white man who embodies the toughness and independence of America’s frontier past. However, marginalized people have starred in rodeos since the very beginning. Cast out of popular western mythology and pushed to the fringes in everyday life, these cowboys and cowgirls found belonging and meaning at the rodeo, staking a claim...
The presence of women in the bullring was banned in Spain until 1975, when the country's political transition to democracy recognized equal rights for women in every aspect of society. After centuries of brave and relentless crusading, women have managed to make in-roads into this male domain. The story of ""Women and the Bullring"" is one of daring and determined women who overcome countless obstacles and sexist barriers to realize a unique dream - that of becoming a ""matadora de toros"". The...
Clinician, trainer, and four-time NFR qualifier Sharon Camarillo emphasizes approach, rate, and turn-making. An essential tool for barrel racers at any level.
Many horse trainers, even those who espouse the so-called natural horsemanship approach, take the position that horses who fail to obey a human's request are doing so as much out of perversity as ignorance. That's not Mark Rashid's view. In his words, "If we understand that horses can't separate the way they feel from the way they act, then we can start to see that unwanted behavior isn't bad behavior at all. More times than not, it's just the horse expressing the way he feels at that particular...
Dusty Boots and Big Hearts (Dusty Boots and Big Hearts, #3)
by Terri Abrahamsen