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Red white black, a true story of race and rodeo, Rick Steber

Label
Red white black, a true story of race and rodeo, Rick Steber
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Red white black
Oclc number
857727861
Responsibility statement
Rick Steber
Sub title
a true story of race and rodeo
Summary
At the 1911 Pendleton Round-Up, the Saddle Bronc Championship of the Northwest came down to three men of different skin colors - Jackson Sundown, a Nez Perce Indian, John Spain, a white man from pioneering stock, and George Fletcher, an African American. Red. White. Black. What happened that September day in 1911 - the judges' decision and the reaction of the crowd in the aftermath - forever changed our history, and the way the sport of rodeo, and the emerging West, was to look at itself
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